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The ignorant master can instruct the learned one as well as the ignorant one: by verifying that he is always searching. He doesn’t necessarily find what he was looking for, but he finds something new to relate to the thing that he already knows.

The power of intelligence is in any human manifestation ... There is inequality in the manifestations of intelligence, but there is no hierarchy of intellectual capacity. Emancipation is becoming conscious of this equality of nature. This is what opens the way to all adventure in the land of knowledge. It is a matter of daring to be adventurous, and not whether one learns more or less well or more or less quickly.

What the student cannot escape is the exercise of his liberty. The master won't have the right to stand anywhere but at the door. The student must see everything for himself, compare and compare, and always respond to: what do you see? what do you think about it? what do you make of it? And so on, to infinity. But that infinity is no longer the master's secret but the student's journey. The book is finished.

The method never stops being verified everyday, in all the circumstances where an individual must learn something without any means of having it explained to him. *All men have equal intelligence.*

The superior intelligence knows things by reason, proceeds by method, from the simple to the complex, from the part to the whole. You respond to someone speaking to you and not to someone examining you: under the sign of equality.

We must discover new scientific knowledge capable of illuminating and criticizing the overwhelming illusions in which everyone is imprisoned.