Technical education trends in Mexico

The words “technical education” have for me a wide democratic meaning, involving the development of technicians with a greater capacity to think, who are perfectly prepared to co-operate in everybody´s well-being and to understand their own responsibilities to the public and to their country. Technical education has as its goal the unveiling of the student´s own creative power. This is in opposition to what frequently is understood by the words “technical instruction or training” which suggest a restriction to personal development and a confinement to sets of instructions and practices which mechanize the individual and nullify his capacity to think.