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EL ETAT DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS EN EL DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE

These will have to contemplate not only the management of structured knowledge but also

give place to tacit knowledge, to the wealth of knowledge transmitted from one generation to

another where language, art and tradition converge around everyday stories that mark social

culture.

The university, propitiating and producing knowledge, requires academic, financial, ethical

and political conditions. Autonomy is a fundamental principle in the development of the
great human work of transforming lives and realities. The substratum of this autonomy is

not only academic freedom, where teachers can express on all kinds of topics without being

censored; but the intellectual freedom that, independent of all interest, through research,

makes discoveries and whose results favour the common good. This freedom is immune to
the interests or influences of political, economic or sectarian power and opens the way to

truly altruistic actions. (Bernasconi, 2014)

The university must also encourage critical thinking within the institution, and from there

try to influence pedagogical proposals and research results in the social, political and cultural

reality of the country.

Procedures carried out by governments and multilateral agencies have tended to define

quality as the measurable demonstration of performance in the graduation of professionals,
student achievement, the scientific production of academics and other products that can be

objectively quantified. However, senses and values (scientific, ethical) have not been

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