| Afrânio Coutinho | Afrânio Peixoto | Antônio Houaiss |
| Augusto Rodrigues | Darcy Ribeiro | Jorge Amado | Josué Montello |
| Monteiro Lobato | Perícles Madureira de Pinho |

Testimony

"... Anísio is the most debated, supported and criticised Brazilian thinker. No one like him urges the admiration of so many people. No one is so denied and has so often had his thought twisted either. (...) His educational theses are so closely associated with the national interests and the struggle for democratisation in our society that one would seldom admit they could arouse such reaction in a republican country."

DARCY RIBEIRO