Manoel de Barros and the rise for the childhood

The article reflects on the poetry of Manoel de Barros in a search of why the poet write with childhood, electing it educator of his readers. An examination was therefore how the poet born in Mato Grosso claims an education through childhood. For him, who thinks "renew man using butterflies", the reader needs to realize the childhood as an event, needs to err like in primeval years, knowing that does not know everything, does not speak anything, and still not see everything therefore, the reader can learn. For this, however, must allow childhood to happen. It was found that Manoel de Barros operates without chronological temporality and argues that there is no possibility of abandoning the childhood, even as an adult. So posits childhood as permanent human condition and invests in an education project of his readers through childhood.