Vocational training from the University Venues has required a revamping preparation and pedagogical practice based on self-education, which enhances the flexibility of the training curriculum, the system of relationships and permanent exchange, the individualized educational response, depending on the the needs and potential of each student and the responsibility for education directly shared with the family, teachers, the institution and the community in general.
In these conditions, the participation, collaboration and prominence of students are raised to higher levels, enhancing the role of the teacher as the main facilitator of knowledge, education, and personalized educational work, under the direction of the tutor, considered an integrating axis of the system of educational influences. The results achieved during the years of application at the University Venues are having a positive impact on the training work of the students.
With the legacy of our great pedagogues, we aspire to an educator who carries out his work with great love and dedication and who is the living gospel that Luz y Caballero pointed out. But also, that you have the necessary culture and preparation to "develop the whole man and not just a part of him" as expressed by our Apostle.
José de la Luz y Caballero was one of the great sages of the first half of the 19th century, along with Félix Varela and José Antonio Saco. It was admirable how once a week, the teachers and students of the school gathered around the teacher to listen to his full talk of science, more than two hundred disciples of Luz and Caballero joined the liberation deeds of the sixty-eight and ninety and five.
In the Cuban Higher Education system, the figure of the tutor has traditionally been associated with the methodological scientific assistance provided by a specialist of recognized prestige and tradition in a certain field of knowledge, either to the student who in the terminal phase of his career develops his Diploma work, or the university graduate who does postgraduate academic studies and does his or her thesis for the acquisition of a scientific degree or degree.
José Martí, Hero of the Republic of Cuba expressed «Educating is depositing in each man all the human work that has preceded him: it is making each man a summary of the living world, until the day he lives; it is to put it at the level of its time, so that it floats on it and not leave it below its time, with which it will not be able to float; it is preparing man for life ». (one)
He also pointed out that: “education is the empowerment of men to obtain with relief and honesty the indispensable livelihoods in the time in which they exist, without thereby lowering the delicate, superior and spiritual aspirations of the best part of the human being ».
It is important to highlight the link that is established between education and the social objectives to which it must respond on the one hand, and the contribution it must make to individual development on the other, such as the two poles of a tensioned string that represent the points arrival and departure respectively in educational work.
In this sense, it is necessary to start from the consideration that the personality is formed and develops not only under the influence of actions directed towards an educational system goal, but also and in an essential way, in a broad social context, since the subject lives in a society.
We consider that the criterion that must prevail in all socializing institutions for the formation of new generations is to create an active and transforming attitude, in the face of the difficulties that arise in social life. That is to say, to train personalities that can pose and achieve objectives that respond to the improvement and demands of the society in which they operate. It is to do the educational work in a concrete way, directed more directly to the individual motivational sphere so that it has immediate significance for the personality.
It is necessary that each generation is placed in such a situation that it can give of itself the maximum possible of its potentialities for the benefit of society and of each individual in particular. The formation of man is a continuous and complex process, which requires, first of all, the precision of the educational objectives that are to be achieved; the determination of the qualities of the personality to be formed and developed, without forgetting the characteristics of the ages and the groups with which one works.
In ethics and in educated and educational politics is the key to finding the new ways of education in values, this is the teaching that our predecessor pedagogues offer us.
Currently, a humanistic vision of politics is present, which is based on the radical defense of freedom and human dignity, on the quality of education, both general and cultural, which is why we must insist on the idea that passivity it must be accompanied by quality, there will not be one without the other, the essential thing is that if we do not use a method that reaches the masses, teachers, students and the people in general, these objectives cannot be met. And for this we must rely on four essential pillars that affect this issue: The family, the school, the community and the mass media in general.
