Why the beings' faculties of knowledge are dissimilar
1243. It is obvious that this faculty to perceive or understand must therefore differ from that of other beings, since it is based on a greater or lesser sum of the same or related experiences than theirs. If this were not the case, all schooling and education would be totally pointless and meaningless. A pupil who has served his apprenticeship definitely must have a more developed ability and greater knowledge of his specific profession or trade, and must have a more perfect perception or better view of the particular methods of working and details of this profession or trade than the pupil who is just beginning his apprenticeship or his study of this trade today. It is a well-known fact that here too an apprenticeship is needed, and that the pupil cannot be given the necessary qualifications or knowledge without his having had practical or personal experience.