Based on some texts by Rancière, this paper tries to elaborate a difference between pedagogy and the pedagogical. Such a difference implies a distinction between the pupil/student and 'childhood' - where childhood would designate the void separating the pupil from herself. This void can be understood as power and ex-position. Exposition includes the charge to respond, which is an invitation to get oneself going. Pedagogy can thus be defined as a travel leading to a dis-charge, or the oblivion of the charge. In contrast, the pedagogical space opens up with the interruption of pedagogy and the manifestation of childhood. Only in this space may the 'mas ter' appear and appear as the one who, in a certain sense, keeps the individual into her childhood, putting his own childhood at stake.
Rancière; Childhood; Potentiality; Ex-position; Education