In despite of the university expansion in Brazil an obstacle remains: the student obligation of mastering knowledge not achieved only by the cognitive learning. Ordinarily the academic survival depends on cognitive-social engagement in the construction of learning strategies and in the university socialization. This means a re-socialization with transformations in students’ lives bring changes on practices, languages, ideologies and mind structures. The democratic possibilities of superior education stresseditself between
three dimensions: university socialization, learning projects and professional future projects. Nevertheless, the universities remain oriented by the traditional academic results and unaware of the conditions of students’ socialization
