In other papers we have developed programs that we found to the developmet of moral education in childrens . In this opportunity we woudl like to make some considerations related to the learning process in adults. Since 1995 we have been developing a set of investigations aimed at thinking the leargning and teaching of ethics in the field of higher education. In this paper we would like to develop the features presented in adults during the learning process of ethics and deontology notions. Regarding the relationship between ethics and education it is necessary to make an explanation. Ethics has two ways of presentation in the university classroom, such as disciplinary content and as cross content. In the first meaning, it refers to teaching specific content that should be teach by the teachers of ethics during the lessons. In the second meaning, it refers to all the teachers of all the courses in which ethics is taught, in the way that ethics goes through the attitudinal contents of all subjects. This paper was conceived following the guidelines of the first meaning. However, the results can be used by other courses to the extend that they are also involved in the teaching of ethical content.