On the occasion of the commemoration of the 249 years of Sobral, municipality of Ceará, Brazil, Eliza Angélica Ponte, Master in Sciences of Education and current PhD student in Education, from Lusófona University, presents her Master’s dissertation in a book, on the TV Assembleia Ceará channel. This book reveals the trajectory of the development of Education in Sobral over two centuries (from 1750 to 1960), through the investigation and analysis of experiences of school institutions and the life history and biography of educators.