Abstract
Our starting point is university’s social responsibility, many times assessed using indicators of applicability. We are warning the danger it entails for education in general, if we do not take as departure point the very same meaning of university and education, namely, if we do not start from their own identities. We suggest, thus, to retake the discussion around humanist education in education processes, for which we analyze very briefly Letter on humanism by Martin Heidegger; Rules for the human park by Peter Sloterdijk; The University without condition by Jacques Derrida and Cultivating humanity by Martha Nussbaum. The essay closes with the theory of communicative action of citizenship education by Jürgen Habermas.Pr

Key words author
Citizenship, communication, humanism, applicability, responsibility, Science, Technology and Society, STS.

Key word plus
Social responsibility, critical pedagogy, science and civilization.