This article analyzes the concept of citizenship from a historical perspective and confronting it with an analysis of the different hegemonies that have tried to impose a global order and the consequences of applying policies that obey to this order. After this, it revises the right of receiving an education bearing in mind the new global realities; and, finally, it centers the study in the different problems education is facing as a consquence of the world order and proposes a perspective to follow.