For several decades, education constituted for the majority of Peruvians a component of a strategy for the future: one on the access roads to modernization. In recent years, however, educational issues at school and outside of it appear intertwined with the country's major problems and with questions about the type of development possible and desirable for our country.

In Peru, the issue of education has been intermittently in public attention and debate in recent years. Since Alan García's proposal for municipalization until today, the educational problem has had, albeit sporadically, a place in social and political concern and in the media. Public discussion of educational issues tends to become more frequent. In the area of ​​growing, distressing.