What holds them together is the common subjective forms that define how they will be incorporated into the educational event. The most important form in the educational process, as we have seen, is wisdom. Under the guidance of wisdom, selection is made from among competing data in a way that allows for the maximization of freedom and the imposition of discipline in the act of creating each new event. An educational event is, in the spirit of Whitehead, simultaneously both microcosmic and macrocosmic. It is both the momentary insight and the life of the scholar.
Every actual entity is the product of other entities.
It becomes part of a subsequent entity and part of the larger set of data that constitute the cosmic, or epochal entities. Whitehead's analysis of process is sufficiently general to account for the spacio-temporal relations of cosmic realities as well as to the most trivial puff of simple existence. In the educational process, therefore, each moment deals with freedom and discipline, as does each epochal event. Freedom and discipline are implied in the creation of new value. To illustrate, the pianist who is practicing a Beethovan sonata has cut himself off, at least for the moment, from playing Bach or Bartok.