Paul Robin

“ That means that it has the right to exigir each one of its members the acquisition of all the knowledges necessary to complement their social functions, so as the duty to procure them all the means possible to acquire scientific and professional, theoretical and practical knowledges, that are indispensable to each human being.
The right to education is equal for all; it would be unjust for society to concede more to some than to others. ”

“ Let us leave them a happy infancy of the heart, a simple and fair spirit faced with realities, an imagination not haunted by ghosts. Let us prepare them not as is too often said, in view of the struggle to survive, but in mutual aid for life, in the hope of social reconciliation. ”

“ To save in teaching that which isn't in ideas, nor in customs, to educate children of the twentieth century as if they had to live in the thirteenth, is a contradictory and violent state that cannot be endured: nothing lasts against logic.
Our epoch has been one of doubt and transition. Beyond the sadness which all have felt, and which either hasn't been understood or nobody wants to say the deep reason for. Each one of us, in her own being and on her own account, has had to remake this labrious history of the century. ”

“ The deep cause of the great social disorders is in the extreme inequality which has been among men since the intellectual point of view and the total divergence of its respective thoughts. This inequality, the fatal consequence of certain nautral or historical factors, has been elaborated so as to appear, consciously or unconsciously, not only by ignorance in that which the masses have been left, but more by the education which has been given, counter-education, anti-rational and immoral, differing and divergent, tending to exaggerate oppositions instead of softening them. ”

“ This liberating and pacifying sort of education, capable of forming healthy and well-balanced organizations, a less fragmented generation, to which we could bind without temor the solution to the future's difficult problems, it would be defined by the ideal that has been proposed to reach. It can be characterized by different traits: it will be called rational, scientific education, because it is based on reason and adheres to scientific principles; universal because it should be everyone's in common, at least to the essential. ”

“ The infinite complexity of the sciences, arts, modern industries, exige of absolute form that who wishes to reach a certain degree of perfection in whatever sphere, is specialized in a given category of study and learning; on the other hand, the invididual is obliged in the bigger social body, where she plays the role of an organ, to adapt self like this to a determined way of functioning. This necessity for the division of labor can be a condition of progress and happiness for the individual, thus like for society itself. ”

“ It’s nothing absolute, society doesn’t act as a power outside of man, that has its authority in a higher origin to individual freedom; on the contrary, this social contract is the product of putting into action the individual freedoms, which are voluntarily united to create a collective power destined to better secure its exercise. ”

“ It would be exaggerated, we believe, to take integral development as the part which is in agreement with individual happiness and specialization as a sacrifice made to social reciprocities: it is certain only to some measure. Specialization can be an element of indidivual happiness, as far as it corresponds to the diversity of organizations and aptitudes; meanwhile, on the otherhand, society has a supreme interest in the balanced and normal development of all its members. ”

“ The agreement would arrive among beings [parecidos] so naturally, so necessarily, that discord and war would be given among essentially dissimilar beings, contradictorily organized. We speed up then in putting a little order in our brains, if we wish that it appear in our actions. We don't know precisely what form tomorrow's social formula will take. Whatever it be, if we wish that evolution, invitable, uniquely is completed by the agreement of reflexive wills—not under the blind growth of the instincts—it is time to give to men an education that [los acerque] more, instead of dividing them. ”

“ All relates to it, all is entwined with it: our worldview as such of the universe and of its laws, of man and society, morality as such, and teaching as well. The old world had [lo suyo de] its own worldview authoritarian, limited, negative, tending to belittle life, in perfect agreement with its vapid philosophy and its morality built in a vacuum. With a no less rigorous logic, the modern spirit, the spirit of science imposes a completely opposed ideal of education ”

“ In intellectual education, the same principle: simultaneous growth, a balance of all faculties without exception; faculties of assimilation and production, of science and of art; the spirit of observation, justice, memory, imagination, the feeling of beauty. Integral instruction, reciprocally the goal and the means of education, is defined as [:] a complete conjunto, entwined, synthetical, progressive in each category of knowledge in parallel, and all despite the younger age and the first elements. ”

“ The only branch of human knowledge about which we must have reservations is history. What is generally understood by this word is [a] science of human deeds, for mature intellects and not [conviene] to children. Understood in another sense, presented from another perspective, is to the contrary access. So, [we have] History: general and national history, but the history of great human and social deeds, of labor, arts, ideas, personal life, better than political history; the history of the people before that of the kings, the history of humanity's evolution before that of dynasties and battles. ”

“ An essential element of integral education, manual X comes to make of balance of intellectual instruction, to which it is in a constant relation of change and reciprocity. Manual labor can also be considered from two different viewpoints: as an exercise meant to perfect the machinery of the senses and to develop manual dexterity—this is the aspect of organic education—and as a study of the means and doings of work—the aspect of technical training. ”

“ Brains are not changed in a day, nor in twenty years. The sacrificed generation that moves today will complete their fates. We leave the [turbia] wave to pass. All our hope is for infancy.
It is here because the great work of our time is education. ”

“ Understand these elements, of a different nature, as pertaining each one to the utmost highest limit of its normal development, and what at the same time is coordinated, is balanced, orchestrated in perfect harmony: this is the scientific ideal, the type of man resulting from all the conditions of perfection and happiness. To accomplish this ideal in itself, to approach as much as possible, is morality; to work reproducing it in others is education. ”

“ The role of teaching is a small thing here. That the child is assimilated, in the means of her individual development, in justice and in social reciprocities; but moral education is above all the work of influence, the consequence of a normal existence in a normal environment. The physiological regimen is one of its principal elements; later, in another regimen of things, the direction given to all thoughts, for the conjunto of teaching. ”

“ I. The education of children Among the difficult problems which the current generation should resolve, one of the most important is the education of children.
For many people, we seem to have found the solution to this vast question in the development of popular education as it exists. Socialism should necessarily establish a new point of view.
What goal does popular education propose? To give the child of the people basic notions in some branches of human knowledge, notions which will always be totally useless to the wage-worker in practical life. ”

“ Giving birth to a child, a mother and father give to society a new member: desde then this child should have a superior right to the parents, for all that concerns the social education of the recently born. From the same form that an individual, prevalenciendo in her natural liberty, refusing the moral and material aid of society, prejudices the collectivity, quiebra therefore the social pact; also a mother a father who, taking refuge in the natural rights that they have over their child, negate from society the right to instruct this child breaking the same manner the social pact. ”

“ The organization of integral education should be one of the principal tasks that will occupy primarily the people called on to reconstruct the social edifice, after the revolution has made a blank slate out of today’s institutions.
Manifesto I The century which is ending will not have passed in vain. A furrow has opened in history which nobody will erase. A revolution has eben accomplished, deeper than those which shook empires: something has changed in the form of happening of the human spirit. ”

“ We respond that the integral education, that tries to give to the child isn’t possible except through collective action; and that a special education, such as today a millionaire can give his children, is far inferior to that which will be received in the educational establishments of regenerated society to each of the pueblo’s children. ”

“ It is no more than that in society as the individual can arrive at the complete development of her faculties, as a consequence she should achieve all the liberties that the exercise of her faculties can provide her. Adopting the social pact, the man abdicates a part of his natural liberty in order to receive in exchange the protection of all and the benefits resulting from collective action. He can then, [to] observe the relations of man with society as the result of a natural contract between the individual and the collectivity. ”

“ To all lights, drawing reclaims [asserts] an important part of the synthetic program, and as art properly said, as the translation of the idea, an element of intellectual activity and happiness, and therefore as tool to work from the utilitarian perspective: the drawing under all its forms and in its different genres, geometric drawing and lifelike drawing, painting; junto to model, as study of the complete form, theoretically before drawing itself, and susceptible to no fewer applications. ”

“ We don't pledge ourselves to a similar task to whom will come after us. We do, if possible, so that our children's souls can have a soul be more tranquil than our own, that they ignore our fights and contradictions. ”

“ It will be without a doubt the social community that puts in charge of the installation of a school-shop; as all the individuals components of this collectivity restringida have the same right to the vigilance of education of that, later will be their associates, it is the conjunto of the inhabitants of a community who regulate that which concerns the organization and the administration of the educational establishment. ”

“ It is the disproportion of faculties, some unconsciously or systematically taken away, the others exalted beyond their measure or excluded, the lack of counterweights which make all these graceless and unbalanced prejudiced organizations, and these inner battles that obscure existence, therefore like also these strange endemic illnesses of the soul, which [espantaban] in history, and of those humanity still hasn't been able to cure itself.
Societies are the result of this situation: that which men value is worth anything. ”

“ That the generation which follows us received from us at least, something which is agreed upon: the rational and scientific education, this renewing and liberating education, essentially progressive, of form that can always add and never have anything to unmake.
II
Eliminating imaginary factors as a result of the formula, science approaches the human being in all its solidarity, with an understanding of organs, energies, faculties of a different sort, in which [the many activities] are expressed by this convergence of physical, intellectual and passionate acts which life is made up of. ”

“ We give the name integral to anything that contains its definition; education that tends towards the parallel and harmonic development of the complete being. Comprende necessarily integral instruction that will serve as a base for specialized learning, for professional training. ”

“ And how will agreement be possible in that which respects to form when the disagreement lies in the depth of the spirits? History does not make itself without help. Finally, what happens depends on wills, deeds always come to model themselves according to ideas. ”

“ Teaching of vocal and instrumental music, thanks to the simplification of a new method, can in the future begin early, and push, not only the specially spoiled organisms, but the masses to a degree of perfection, that permits this art to develop the means and exercise its influence. ”

“ And this is certain, that those who relive the past through history are always obliged to make personal efforts to understand men and the events of those times so near in time, but distant in the distance covered. You seem to be transported to another world in the midst of beings of a different nature. ”

“ The first condition of the order, in all things, is integrity. Of the way that the bneing, to whom lacks a feeling, an organ; man, to which one of his essential faculties to the species has it [mermada] , is an incomplete and deformed example. Thus as physical health consists of the contemplation of different organic systems and their synergetic functioning, intellectual and moral health is the outcome of normally developed faculties which all converge harmonically. ”