About the university in Brazil in the era of the cultural shock. Education for technology

Abstract

We live in an era of change which is characterized by the speed with which it occurs. This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience and without any previous standard which can serve as guidance. The ability of observation and computing developed in the last hundred years has given the convergence of various disciplines. Departmental barriers have disassembled giving rise to a "new science" characteristically interdisciplinary. If in research that attitude is very well accepted, particularly as regards the models, in the undergraduate courses, it is ignored. We must find new axes that meet the new scientific and technological scenario. The opportunity to create new universities in Brazil favors the deployment of new models whose identity is more suitable for the education of young university students. Most of our traditional universities are on route to extinction. It urges immediate action - bold and committed to the advancement of knowledge. We must break the cultural chains of the inferiority complex and subservience. Only in this way can we actually be inserted into the international community.  Universities focusing on learning and not on teaching, research to expand the knowledge and not to fatten resumes, interdisciplinarity as an effect and not as a cause, as well as the recovery of mutual trust are essential items for new initiatives. Students must worry about competence and not about diplomas, worry more about intellectual independence than about disciplines; get off the treadmill and go to the top advancements of knowledge; protest less and make more proposals; and finally, not let themselves be blocked by formalities. The organization of parallel courses, informal and modern, is a lawful and necessary action.