Reform and university reformism at the University of Latin America and the Caribbean. From Andres Bello's reform proposal to the reformist instrumentalism of the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century

The university in Latin America and the Caribbean has been exposed to the university reforming policy since Andres Bello defined the project: "reception and critical diffusion of the scientific thought". But neither the liberal reforms of half century XIX in the preservative and liberal continent, nor governments who later followed one another in the past century, for example of nefandas dictatorships, managed to draw up a course to the university in which the autonomy, the freedom of chair and the academic excellence were the constant of an ascent towards the construction of a life culture and coexistence. Neither the normal schools, nor the New School of the Fifties of century XX, nor the transit to the North American university model in the Sixties and seventy (after End of the East), nor the popular education of Paulo Freire, far from it "neoliberal" kindness of self-regulation and standards of the last years have managed to define the project of the university and the education in general, like an permanent construction to be to the height of the society of their time and to indicate the route to the same society of their time