Abstract
This article presents a dialogue with the past of technical education starting from the questions that arise nowadays. The authors hold that the Mexican technical education has been directed since the 19th Century by the French polytechnical model that has been fiercely criticized since then because of its excessive theoretical and school load at the expense of practice. The authors show that there is some continuity between the approaches and the curriculum designs of the Porfiriato and the postrevolutionary ones, and they show how the polytechnical model has been expanding by means of the federal technical education system during the last third of the 20th Century, and also the changes and innovations it has undergone. They finally discuss the actual dispersion of technical education, that can be observed in its administrative takeover by the states and by its normative reintegration of general education facing our times’ change of knowledge and competences.
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