The introduction is an effort to acquaint the reader with the political concept of “good living” in Ecuador’s recent past, as it motivated the research comprising this book. Hence, this book, focusing on narratives of “good living” and “bettering lives” in rural education during the 1960s and 1970s in Ecuador, commences with a weaving of stories from the 1990s and 2000s. Is not an exercise of presenting the research problem. Rather it is contextualizing the events and curiosities that drive this work. This research started considering how such a positive idea, like “good living”, can also be a problematic and violent one. That non-evident light of “good living” led me to the histories I engage with in this study.