Abstract

This very short note is a reflection on the idea of school as a “laboratory” where masters and pupils are supposed to be equal as regards their work, but not as regards their functions. “Gratitude” is what renders mutually equal. In this sense, this note is also an admonition and a condemnation for the “unhappy ones” which, ignoring gratitude, cannot understand and cultivate school as an education of intelligence and a shaping of will