This article aims to analyze the construction of thought dominated and without criticality, acquired by educational institutions molded and used as instruments for the purposes of the market economy and globalization. From Paulo Freire’s approach to banking education and Noam Chomsky’s illustration, education is approached as a tool that allows emancipation and the proper word of the educator and the learner. With this purpose, the works of these authors and others that reinforce their approaches are analyzed. The conclusions reached are that globalization suggests appropriate models of education that standardize and grid institutional thinking and implicitly the entire educational community. To change this reality, a reflective education is necessary and in search of the discovery of reality through research, creation and questioning that allows creating new knowledge that is meaningful and the more so to others.