ABSTRACT
We are wrong to believe that the true and the false can only be brought to bear on solutions, that they begin only with solutions. This prejudice … goes back to childhood, to the classroom: It is the school teacher who “poses” the problems; the pupil's task is to discover the solutions. In this way we are kept in a kind of slavery. True freedom lies in a power to decide, to constitute problems for themselves. [As Bergson writes:] “Discovery, or uncovering, has to do with what already exists, actually or virtually; it was therefore certain to happen sooner or later. Invention gives being to what did not exist; it might never have happened.”
