By ÁNGELES GALINO CARRILLO.- This presentation discusses the pedagogical anthropology of Pedro Poveda with the desire to deepen into the relationship between his educational concepts and the man or woman to educate in accordance with them. This is not aseptic, as it might seem. Judging by the educational meetings –or conferences-, or by specialized publications, discussions focus on content, methods, techniques, organization, and others. Fundamental issues of pedagogy. However, relatively rarely the subject to be formed emerges at the forefront, the one about whom educators could and should say: "I am here because you are here."