This paper presents an alternative view where technology education in Colombia is rethought at the outset of a new structure referred to (by the national government) as education for pre-university courses, a concept introduced by act 749 of July 19th 2002. Such a concept initially focused on the fields of engineering, information technology and administration and then, in 2008, it began to cover all areas of knowledge. The paper examines the genealogy of propaedeutics, building on its foundational culture of classical Greece, and reinterprets some works of Plato also reflecting on speech technologies as a historical construct that gave birth to Industrial Revolution Moreover, the analysis considers a new pedagogy together with new didactics of technology teaching that transform the attitudes and values of students towards the use of materials from the periodic table so as to geometrize technology products. Finally, we conclude that, to the Govern-ment´s consideration, propaedeutics holds no relationship with a new structure of higher education in terms of the epistemology of technological knowledge and its transfer, but as a strategy of the so called coverage expansion and education commercialization.