Se presentan los argumentos sobre la gran resistencia de la comunidad educativa cuando se trata de relacionar la economia con la educacion o de hacer lecturas de la educacion desde la reflexion economica; asi mismo, se establece que dicha resistencia ha disminuido recientemente entre los investigadores, sobre todo aquellos con horizontes educativos mas holisticos en los que se incluye a la economia como una disciplina integrada a este campo del saber. This essay presents the arguments about the great resistance of the educational community when it treat to relate the economy with the education or to make relations of the education from the economic point of view; likewise, it is found that the above mentioned resistance has diminished recently among researchers, especially those with educational horizons more holistic in which economy are included as a discipline integrated to this field of knowledge