College humanistic education : challenge and urgency of modern times

Abstract

At the present time it’s impossible to conceive a University without thinking ofour function in the formation of integral students†(LA PORTA. 1.998)We can’t think of the university as an institution of maximum cultural level, scientific and technological formation of a country, which does not assume its function in the formation of an active citizen. Among other reasons, because within the university context there are cohabitants being formed, who will be the future leaders and probably the majority of men and women, incorporated to the working sector, that will be the highly qualified workers and entrepreneurs, undoubtedly making those decisions of social and political importance and assuming a role model for the community.This horizon of comprehension is what makes the formation on values ofhumanism a challenge; urgency impossible to be postponed. Today’s Educational Institutions, particularly those of superior character, have the honorable responsibility to offer an axiological formation that allows a strengthening of the deepest human dimensions as grounds for the construction of knowledge, taking into account that it would be worthless to have professionals of a wide knowledge but without the required competences to make a significant contribution to a society that has been fragmented and bleed due precisely to the lack of values and humanity.