This paper aims to address, on the one hand, the notion of education as "helping to grow", explained from the contribution made by Leonardo Polo with his Transcendental Anthropology. The author will speak of a radical distinction, but Polo will apply to the human being the real distinction that Thomas Aquinas discovered between the act of being and essence. This distinction, as we shall see, will make important contributions to anthropology, and especially to the subject that concerns us, that is, to education as an aid to growth. From this duality we will be able to speak of unrestricted growth in the human being. This growth will take place both at the level of the essence and at the level of the act of being. The growth of the essence, which we will deal with to a greater extent in this research, will be called essentialization, while the growth of the personal act of being will be known as optimization, although we will not focus on it in this work.