The basic proposal that the author presents in this book refers, primarily, the need to rethink and discuss some educational
problems of fundamental importance because, although the twenty-first century has started, continue to be ignored and because of this, many aberrations of the human current still happening. For Morin, Seven are the fundamental knowledge that must be worked in any education of the future (say,, current), regardless of the type of society and culture as they relate specifically to the preparation and education of the human condition . Down as the first to know "the" knowledge of knowledge "required for the preparation of facing the risk of error and illusion exist, leading to the human mind to clear, using the rational logic, critical, self and result of the debate argued, debate that this will make people learn, think and act according to the real cultural paradigms entered in every society, rejecting myths and ideas that, years on end, you have tamed. Regarding the second to know, "stresses that knowledge should facilitate the ability of the human spirit of context information in a set that allows mutual achievements and mutual influences between the parties. Education must understand, finally, that the cognitive development does not bind the abstract knowledge, but the context, complexity, and the free exercise of all the curiosity of organizing parties, promoting general intelligence, which facilitates the identification of knowledge that compartmented atrophy and the mind becomes Disjunctive. As the "third know," the author refers to the resumption and recovery of the condition and the awareness of what really means to be human, ie a being who is at the same time, biological, psychological, sociocultural and historical, and therefore a common identity to all other human beings, and this should be the primary objective of the entire education, starting from the recognition of human unity and complexity, through organization and unification of knowledge dispersed. The full and free expression of the men are from an ethical and political purpose, which is only consolidated by the triad
individual / society / species. Human development depends on the development of the set of individual autonomy, community participation and sense of belonging to the human species, respecting both the units and the existing differences. " To discuss the fourth knowledge ", the author focuses on the importance of teaching the global history, not hide oppression and domination, accounting for more devastation of humanity and, incredibly, have not yet been completely exterminated, which makes a man know your own world: we are all involved in the world, but we have difficulty to grasp it, because our thinking has atrophied over time. In full season of major technological advances, telecommunications, Internet, yet we are incapable of thinking on the whole, the multidimensionality, suffocated by our inability to intelligibility. Therefore, it is necessary a reform of thought, which is not tied only to the material but the intellectual, emotional, moral, etc.., To have the release of the easement, ensuring that all human beings at least welfare, hate these pernicious and degrading conditions. Clarifies that the "fifth namely, binding to the uncertainties that currently prevail in all aspects of human life and thus need to be taught strategies that they are developing to address unexpected, know how to react to they go and change their behavior forms. New information is also important that these changes will happen, with minds already prepared to know how to act against the unexpected, especially in education, to guide young children and how to proceed in the face of uncertainties inherent in the current times. Should be developed the ability to select reflected that, if necessary a decision, the man can always rely a strategy that considers the complexity inherent in the choice to be made. As for the "sixth learn" is based on the importance of
understanding yourself and mutual understanding, involving a total reform of attitudes, emphasizing the importance of understanding for the human race, allowing the review of existing misunderstandings, from its roots , what would the discovery of the causes of some conflicts as latent in the world today, such as racism, xenophobia, religious intolerance, etc.. Records the expansion of egocentrism in the world, caused by the relaxation of discipline and obligations, being the main generator of the misunderstandings that damage family relationships and school and responsible for the increase in assaults, homicides, etc.. We must teach children and youth to carry out self-examination so that they can learn to recognize and judge their own actions. Referring to the "seventh know," says that it should focus on the "anthropogenic-ethics", as the human condition is formed by the triad individual / species / society. Would control the individual by society and this to it, forming what we called the "world citizenship". Ethics will be made in people''s minds and not taught by lessons in morality, involving the understanding of joint development of individual autonomy and diverse, than the consciousness of belonging to the human species, contributing to education for such awareness. The aim of mankind should be geared towards improving basic human conditions for the improvement of democracy, contributing to the achievement of the process of humanization through the "world citizenship". We are the paths and do not have the keys to the future, but we must keep this in our minds that "El camino se hare al andar" (Antonio Machado).