This work develops a reflection about some concepts of Walter Benjamin about mimesis and childhood, presented in some of his writings. Benjamin places in question the bourgeois education and its practices and he reflects on children’s apprenticement through the mimetics’ capacity. The objective is to accentuate how the children accomplish their world knowledge with permanent exercise of imagination, fantasy and sensitivity. This article is introductory and it aims to accentuate the originality of a writer that, in context of an European society from 1916 to 1940, placed relevant questions about education as process of the child mimetic capacity. Key words: mimesis, childhood, education, Walter Benjamin.Este trabalho apresenta uma reflexão s...