The pedagogical myth, we said,
divides. the world into two. More precisely, it divides
intelli
gence into two. It says that there is an inferior intelligence and
a superior one. The former registers perceptions by chance, re
tains them, interprets and repeats them empirically, within the
closed circle of habit and need. This is the intelligence of the
young child and the common man. The superior intelligence
knows things by reason, proceeds by method, from the simple
to the complex, from the part to the whole. It is this intelligence
that allows the master to transmit his knowledge by adapting
it to the intellectual capacities of the student and allows him to
verify that the student has satisfactorily understood what he
learned. Such is the principle of explication. From this point
on, for Jacotot, such will be the principle of enforced stultifica
tion*
To understand th
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