Rereading Oriol Bohigas, I found in his diaries a reference to his time at the mythical Institut-Escola. He recounts an anecdote that illustrates the civic spirit of that exemplary institution, which was meant to be the vanguard of republican educational change. The dictatorship destroyed it all. Damn authoritarian intolerance, which returns... Educational optimism, tinged with an essential veil of naivety, remained buried for decades. But we must also return to it. Urgently.