Havana, Cuba.- Fidel Castro”s ideas and their impact on youth were at the center of a panel of the congress Pedagogy 2019 here Tuesday, a forum that brings together more than 600 delegates from 42 countries.

According to the Ph.D. and professor at the Artemisa University Yosdey Davila, as early as in 1962, the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution affirmed that he did not want youth to hear and repeat, but a youth that thinks.

He also highlighted at the Havana Conference Center the confidence of Fidel Castro in young people, by giving missions such as the creation of research centers that would give way to new tasks.

Davila recalled Fidel Castro’s way of dialoguing, of contextualizing the problems without cold speeches, but as a direct pact, with transformations and a heuristic vision.

The new generations, he said, should not only study the history of Cuba, but they should also know that of Latin America, to be aware of the phenomena that threaten our region, a vision that is part of the legacy of the revolutionary leader and promoter of the education.

He also referred to the Latin American School of Medicine, created in 1999, as another component of Fidel Castro´s work , which transcends time in its spirit of solidarity.

‘The need to have a cultured people, with an interest in the formation of an integral general culture, was one of the premises to which the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution also aspired,’ he said.

The forum opened on Monday, in its sixteenth edition, will be held until Friday under the slogan ‘Meeting for the Unity of Educators,’ and seeks to encourage the debate around the fulfillment of the sustainable development goals of the Agenda 2030.