In the last two conferences, in Lisbon and in Hamburg, we have already presented some of the data we gathered for our research about a Portuguese educator, Teresa de Saldanha (Lisbon, 1837 - 1916). So, in Lisbon we presented the lady and her work in general terms; last year we talked about one of her schools, using the different kind of documents that we had gathered and analysed. This year we would like to talk about another of our goals in this research, which is to understand what European ideas did influence her work and how did they come to her.As a consequence of the Portuguese Civil War that followed the French Invasions occurred at the beginning of the 19th Century, many Portuguese nobles - including Teresa's family - were forced to the exile and lived some years abroad. Returning to Portugal they maintained their relationships with foreign people which permitted the exchange of ideas as well as of books, for instance. Many English and Irish people established in Portugal, too.The tradition of sending the eldest sons to travel in Europe as a final activity in their education and familiar expeditions to special European Exhibitions or the pilgrimages of catholic groups to Lourdes and Rome, also contributed to this ideological flow. The descriptions of these travels are particularly interesting to our research, as they allow us to understand how did they influence or simply contribute to the development of a pedagogic project in its ideological and practical aspects.We found in Teresa's letters many references to important names like Montalembert, Lacordaire, Madame Swetchine, Lammenais, suggesting an affiliation with liberal ideas which we had already identified as it is an assumed affiliation many times repeated by her; but also a link with French ideological trends. The titles included in the list of books existing in her home, confirm this interpretation. And, although we did not find yet a specific reference to the most relevant pedagogues, the names of Lacordaire and Dupanloup, also a French, are very significant.And there is also a large amount of correspondence with English people and particularly with Irish people. These letters specially concern to the institutions more than to the ideas, although the ideas are, of course, always underlying.Besides the liberal ideas there is another constant reference in Teresa de Saldanha's letters: the Dominicans. In fact, she assumes a total identification with Dominicans' style: in their way of living, of thinking and of educating. So, it also becomes a way of being. As the Dominican Order is spread all over the world we can think of it as a way of flowing ideas and practices. We will try to outline the mainstream of Dominican philosophy and synthesize the pedagogic ideas that can stand out of it, relating it to Teresa de Saldanha's work as far as we can do it at this moment.