This present work is based on the black rural community called Colônia de São Firmino, located in the municipality of Ewbanck da Câmara, in the forest area or would be better to write Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais. It isintendedto understand how the educational processes within this community are developed and preserved between the generations. In the first part it historicizes the appearance of the term Quilombo and the discussion of this thematic in the contemporaneity. As a theoretical reference, the imaginary, defended by Gilbert Durand (2012), is used as the set of images and relations of images that comstitute the thought capital of "homo sapiens", appearing as the great fundamental denominator where all the procedures of the h...