01638nas a2200121   4500008004100000245007700041210006900118260001200187520119100199100002301390700003401413856006901447       2014                        eng d00aEducationism, may facilitate the understanding of the Degrowth proposal.0 aEducationism may facilitate the understanding of the Degrowth pr  aLeipzig3 aThe end of the 20th century showed the failure of ideologies. The ideologies of industrial civilization - capitalism, socialism and developmentalism - became prisoners of production and of income distribution, plundering the environment and offering, without delivering, accessible consumption to the masses. The failure of industrial-civilization utopia suggested that the very sense of utopia was dying. The 21st century brought the idea of the death of ideologies, but reality keeps hope alive for a new utopia. The alternative ideology would be Educationism: the doctrine through which the utopian future can be built by assuring each human being the instruments necessary for his/her intellectual and material liberation through education. Educationism considers industrial civilization to be headed for a catastrophe due to individual inequities and environmental degradation. This march toward disaster can be interrupted by replacing the dream of economic equality with educational equality: the worker’s child in the same school as the boss’s. Educationsim defends the reorientation of the civilizatory project and may facilitate the understanding of the Degrowth proposal.1 aBuarque, Cristovam1 ade Carvalho, Prof., Dr. João  uhttps://degrowth.community/conference2014/scientific-papers/3273