Historically, in Latin America and the rest of the world, close links have been argued between education and the formation of an active citizenry able to respond to the growing challenges that globally strain the ideal of a democratic political coexistence. We are not born democrats; we learn to be so. Thus, the educational experience serves as an initiation for new generations into a first distancing from the shared beliefs of one’s own family in order to become critically and constructively integrated into increasingly complex, differentiated, unequal, and individualistic sociopolitical contexts. This is necessary to promote civic coexistence with geographically and ideologically distant others with whom one must learn to deliberate, collaborate, process conflict, and reach consensus. Currently, this desideratum of education and democratic citizenship faces two risks: first, the crisis of democratic belief, expressed in growing social detachment to traditional political participation, especially among youth cultures; and second, a planetary culture characterized by the absence of adults competent enough to educate youth to be responsible for the common world, that is politics. To conclude, this essay explores and proposes three key training areas of self-formation for educators to enable them to take on the responsibility of educating the new generations of democrats.