Autonomy giving a sense of responsibility

More than ever, the educational mission, in particular of the higher education, has as a major function to allow the emergence of autonomous human beings to be responsible. Nowadays, and in particular for ten years, the term of autonomy has been used in very diverse meanings, having little to see with the problems of autonomy. The interlocutor unsing the word "autonomy" has the feeling of having said everything and being understood by all according to the representation that he has itself of it; it is generally very poor and is restricted to the capacity "to manage all alone and not to pose any problem to the others". On the other hand, in philosophy, it means "to give yourself your own law", that is to say that you ask questions and that you do not accept any authority, not even the authority of your own former thought. Autonomy, in the field of thought, it is the unlimited interrogation, which does not stop in front of anything and which constantly calls itself into question.
Essential education that the contemporary society provides to its members, in the schools, the colleges and the universities, is an instrumental education, organized primarily to learn a professional occupation. By which process and which stages the student build his self? To which types of capacities does lead autonomy? Which teaching recommendations result from this for University studies? Here are the questions about which this document begins to contribute.