Education and University in Mexico

Abstract

Education, in the history of western societies, is directly linked to the criteria of their systems of government. The different philosophical, religious and political orientations, as well as economic trends, have defined the relevance of the educational order and have established the way in which the population is educated through the school in its different degrees. The school has functioned as an institution that models social personalities. Education is a powerful weapon: using it as a means of liberation, it provokes an awakening to autonomous, decisive, creative and critical thinking; using it as a means of control, it hinders logical and argumentative reasoning, numbs the mind and diminishes the capacity to react.