Ignorance of history and the theoretical debate that you have configured the pedagogical and educational fields have enabled the uncritical inclusion of speeches related to competence, quality and curricular theories of economists bias in the training of teachers and researchers. Such concepts are future “performance indicators” of teachers forming today in programs of undergraduate and master’s degree in education within the framework of an educational system attended from a technical rationality. This paper examines the key moments of this historical development in the West: paideia Greek and Christian, teaching as teaching of the modern school since the 16TH century; and education, formation (bildung), or curriculum between the 18TH and 19TH centuries since European educational traditions. This analysis, arises as an alternative for training of teachers and researchers which deepens the pedagogical and educational fields in order to develop critical judgment