This
contribution reflects upon the issue of “educational poverty” linked to the
current health situation. The emergency aroused by the spreading of Covid-19
has had multiple negative effects which, whilst affecting social and economic
policies worldwide, have also experienced significant repercussions on the
population’s educational choices and cultural opportunities. The issue of
"educational poverty", therefore, has been tackled in this article
taking into consideration both material and cultural poverty. In addition to
the lack of resources and technological tools that the emergency has made
evident with distance teaching, there is a more serious form of symbolic and
spiritual poverty, which affects subjects and contexts of human life, both in
individual and collective experiences.