This work tried to identify the effects of dichotomized narratives to the history of deaf education, having as the field of investigation the National Institute for Deaf Education (Instituto Nacional para Educação de Surdos: INES). An analysis of how the Institute has been narrated in the bibliographic production about deaf education since the nineties is carried out and in it there is an opposition between those who maintain the teaching through the Brazilian sign language and those who defend the oral language, in an antithetic way and with a clear defense of the teaching through the sign language. This route of such a critical narrative has assumed a court-history perspective, in an oppressor logic (listeners/oralists) versus oppressed (deaf/gesture adapters). Some pioneers on deaf education, such as the French Jean-Marie Gaspard Itard (1755-1838), are considered anachronic in their times for not corresponding to such nowadays theoretical formulations. I consider that the centrality that these critics have reached causes innumerable invisibilities that affect the perception of the interactions between the field of deaf education and of general education. For this investigation, besides official documents, interviews and letters have been used as research resources. The comprehension about the processes was based on Halbwachs (2006), Le Goff (2003) and Duby (1993). The present study pointed out that it wasn’t the deaf education which hasn’t dealt with the regular education or national politics. We lack research about these dialogues.