The article briefly discusses some aspects of the linkages between body and emotion which, regarding the Chilean educational field, were analyzed by different actors throughout the studied period. This implies to observe changes from those approaches focused on the control and discipline of the body (hegemonic perspective in the educational context of the nineteenth century) and new understandings of students’ “nature” (from psychology) and, consequently, to a different way of approaching the attributes of their subjectivity as well as their embodiment.