ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that students from private schools, or from the very small number of federal vocational high schools, gain the highest educational results, when compared to their peers educated in state or municipal schools. There is also a direct association between family income and parent's educational level and the likelihood of attending these two more successful types of secondary schools. Nizan Guanaes argued that Brazilian elites should aim to combine 'books and money'. He argued that instead of giving him a Ferrari, he had 'enrolled him in the best school in Sao Paulo - Graded'. Afterwards, his son had asked to go to one of the best prep schools in the USA, Philips Exeter Academy, which was founded in 1781. Nizan Guanaes article highlights two themes that capture important developments in Brazilian elite education today: namely, the intensification in the use of private education; and, linked to this, the growing internationalisation of schooling trajectories.
