Elementary School students, the increase of daily school hours and the Complete Education concept

This paper is based on Elementary School students' speeches, gathered through a national survey. An experience to increase the daily school hours was underway at the time of the survey and concepts about education were discussed. These concepts were brought into action through practical experiences based on two fundamental assumptions: (1) increasing the daily school hours can have influence on the quality of learning when it is constituted as complete education for the human being; (2) the concept of complete education starts at the early years of Elementary School. The work was based on three parts to describe the students' speeches, including inferences on how they see the increase of daily school hours; analyzing these speeches through a conceptual image of different proposals to increase the daily school hours providing a complete education; and thinking about the concept of complete education nowadays, comparing it to the students' speeches.