To understand is to invent

‘Affirming the right of all human beings to education is to take on a far greater responsibility than simply to assure to each one reading, writing, and arithmatic capabilities; it is to guarantee fairly to each child the entire development of his mental faculties and the acquisition of knowledge and of ethical values corresponding to the exercise of these faculties until adaptation to actual social life. Moreover, it is to assume the obligation- keeping in mind the aptitudes and constitution that each person possesses-of not destroying or spoil- ing those possibilities that he may have that would benefit society first of all, or of allowing the loss of important abilities, or the smothering of other’s ‘

1973