A HUMANISTIC LOOK AT THE BRAZILIAN HIGHER EDUCATION

The text discusses the relationship between work and education in Brazil's higher education. It analyzes the changes in the socio-cultural profile of today's workers and students who get into the university in the evening programs aiming at showing their real conditions in relation to the consequences of globalization, their difficulties and their paths through their struggling between work and studies. It shows that the causes can be found in the predominance of technical training at the expense of humanistic education of a global character. Through bibliographical search, which studies the contradictions in the society, we have an overview showing that education must be a right not a commodity. It points out the necessity of a pedagogical job that is educationally-oriented not just in the technical dimension, but also seeking social relations with emphasis in a university professor with political awareness and criticism capacity. It focuses on the need to comprehend the social transformations, seeking in education a form of building the knowledge acquired at the university with room for the articulation of quality along with quanity, avoiding the undesirable dichotomy between both aspects.