Social commitment as the foundation of the concept of a public university

Abstract

Throughout its history, our public universities – the oldest and the youngest – have resorted to the classic concept of university, which has always guaranteed the permanence of that institution almost millenary. A vision that permeates its entire history is the belief in knowledge and the free use of reason as bases for the building up of human society. That is why the university seeks to preserve the knowledge accumulated by humanity and that belief is the basis of its intervention in the present and the acceptance of the questions of the future. Without that, another would be the civilizational course of humanity. We would be surrendering to the obscurantism that confronts us in current times.