Instead of creating new value, one simply squanders old value. Some selection is necessary, and, as we have seen, this implies a decision, or cutting off. Here is where limitation, or negative prehensive activity, enters the picture. Some focus is necessary for every new event, and that focus requires our putting aside some possibilities in order to realize others. Thus are created new events of value.
Value is the outcome of limitation.
Applied to educational theory, limitation implies discipline. Each requires the other, each is incomplete without the other. Each represents a distinctive side of the process by which education takes place. 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.