Education at home was a significant educational practice held at the Brazilian Homes in the 18th Century, which, in some moments, represented the largest share of education imparted to the young and to the children, at that time and situation. Held over by masters, who assumed the position of teachers and tutors private, or even by members of the family or priests, it was a constant practice in education all over the Imperial period in Brazil, having as its model the education imparted to princes and the nobility, and as its main feature the European influence. The thesis proposes studying the characteristics of this practice and of the circumstances in which it happened at the House, as well as the relationships established among it, the private schools and the emerging state schools, in a daily life involving the different means of education conceived as methods to educate boys and girls in the 18th Century. The research is based on several kinds of documental sources, mainly from periodicals of the time, which show clearly how the educational practices held at Home were planned and how the masters, the agents and the ones in charge of the education of the children of the elite in Brazil of the Eighteen Hundreds were inscribed in the period.