vol. 1 núm. 1 (1998)

Colombia is currently afflicted by a deep moral crisis as a result of a sustained neglect of the highest moral, legal and religious standards and laws. The worst crisis suffered builds upon the language. Not only because falsehood reigns but also because knowledge appears ever more distant from the truth. High education institutions are responsible for abandoning the teaching of the humanities. The humanities civilized barbarians and without then civilized people quickly fell into barbarism.Overcorning the crisis requires the restoration of the sciences of the spirit, the formation of the habits of reading as well as writing and the consolidation of articulate dialogue and conversation in the student. It is thus urgent to go back to the classics. In this manner, the human being will be spiritually replenished according to its high moral and intellectual standing. This is precisely thebasic work of the university.