University teaching: A new approach Docencia Universitaria: un nuevo enfoque

Abstract

In the fourth century before christ, Aristóteles characterized the teacher function when he said that the student's mind was a "blank slate" and that the role of the teacher was to full it, making students memorize the contents that he expose in his teaching lecture. The topic of their signatures were selected by them with their judgement. This point of view determined a passive attitutide from the studen towards the different fields of knowledge, and it distiguished the education as dogmatic, authoritarian, and no critical, where the professor was mithicized as the erudite foolproof of the knowledge.