<p>This article proposes Poetics as a chance to encourage the comprehensive development of the human being –aesthetic being and social being– in the Colombian educational context. Poetics contributes to humanization of education and makes it a spiritual, cognitive and affective experience capable of going beyond the knowledge view as utilitarian, immediate and effective. Thus, knowledge turns into an unlimited universe where student and teacher are allies, enjoy the knowledge adventure and nurture key human aspects such as imagination, recreation, reverie, fascination, wonderment, among others. They engender the development of critic, autonomous and propositional thinking.</p>