El profesor universitario

The pessimistic situation that the world and our country suffer today, requires that each profession is obliged to carry out a work of moral, social, cultural and spiritual healing. This work is mainly the responsibility of the university, as a luminous workshop of culture.Talking about the university could be left in pure abstraction. They are the professors, who constitute and vivify higher education and who with their teaching, their friendship, and their example, can convince the world that not only cutting-edge technology or cutting-edge infra-structures are needed, but above all, Those human realities that seem to be in danger of extinction: honesty, justice, peace, truthfulness, respect, fraternity, love ... all those things that are not made by machines.Every university professor, whatever his specialty, is in position to orient his teachings towards a pedagogy of moral integrity, because the educator is not only a person that transmits a message, but everything in himself of herself is the message; and that education is not the trans-mission of values, but the appreciation of life.Teaching, at all educational levels is equally commendable. And ed-ucation is always obliged to be optimistic: the educability (improve-ment, perfectibility) of man is the great hope of humanity. It is true that no one is perfect, but we are all perfectible. If man could not be improved, it would be absurd to talk about education. The words of González-Simancas continue to be true: true education is the stubborn cultivation of one’s self through freedom!

El hombre: vocación viviente -- "Yo no tengo alumnos: yo sólo tengo amigos" -- Educación: cultivo terco de uno mismo ¡a fuerza de libertad! -- El trabajo revela la dignidad de la persona -- Impulsores del desarrollo humano -- Sembrador de ideas, formador de rostros -- ¿La educación garantiza la felicidad? -- La prueba de que algo se sabe es que se puede ensañar a otros -- La autoridad del maestro -- Las motivaciones del profesor -- Las funciones del maestro -- Carácter ético del quehacer educativo -- El profesor-educador -- Expectativas sobre los alumnos -- Expectativas y concepto de sí mismo -- Expectativas que se cumplen a sí mismas -- ¿Qué tipo de profesor soy?