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.