[1] In 1930 he founded the Colegio Libre de Estudios Superiores, in whose publication Courses and Conferences, "Education and Class Struggle", a fundamental work, appeared in several numbers in 1934.

[2] He decided to go into exile in Mexico, where he taught courses in psychology, ethics, sociology and dialectics at different universities, without leaving his political militancy.

[1] In 1938, on the highway between Morelia and Mexico City, a traffic accident left Ponce with internal injuries that were not discovered in time, causing his death shortly after.

His production in psychology also includes interesting forays into topics such as reasoning, adaptation, feelings, and the "spirit of contradiction".

Ponce developed an original theoretical approach that articulated the ideas of José Ingenieros, Alfred Adler, Jean Piaget and Lucien Lévy-Bruhl.