Meetings, dialogues and understandings between education and democracy are analyzed, highlighting conceptions and contributions that educational processes make to the democratic project, understood as a socio-political commitment that requires cementing the formation of conscious, critical, ethical and participatory citizens in the recognition of values of coexistence, respect and permanent search for balance and social development, on the basis of which it is necessary to dimension education from gambling and narratives theoretically and operatively sustained in the principles of integral formation, which rescue complex dimensions of the human person, this implies a permanent review of the organizational models that structure educational institutions.