PARABLE OF INVITED TO DINNER AND CURRICULUM 
times A simple text, a well explained example, a successful imitation may be the best way to understand the concept. In the text that follows, collected by Pere Pujol his book Different Student Learning Together (Octahedron) inclusive education compared with a dinner where there is a guest with features that prevent it fit the menu ( CV) procedure. This is the text:
The professor of education said to his disciples: "The school teacher can be compared to a well-respected nobleman who could cook very well and prepared a dinner for a group of friends." Seeing the puzzled faces of his disciples, the professor went on to explain: "A great man of a city he met an old acquaintance who had not seen for a long time. The great man had planned the day after a dinner with a group of friends who also knew, nor knew anything about him for many years, and invited him to dinner. The great man was a good cook and prepared dinner splendid: starters varied dishes of all kinds and a cake with candied fruits. All washed down with cava wines of Priorat and Penedes. The same day of the dinner, he realized that his old friend did not remember too well why-had to be careful with what I ate and certainly nothing that had been prepared with much care would be good. I phoned immediately [...] explaining what happened, and said he was sorry, it was better not to go to dinner and to warn him and when held next. Another great man of the same city was in the same situation. He had also prepared a fabulous dinner for friends and had invited an old friend of all with whom he had met a couple of days earlier. The evening of dinner, another guest made him realize that, if not remember, old friend could not eat anything. The nobleman, who had forgotten about it, he ran to phone her friend to ask if he still had the same problem and to tell him not to worry, that out anyway, as he prepared a dish of vegetables and fish the iron. Interestingly, a third great man of the same city, also well respected, he found an identical case. And when she had almost everything ready, it was agreed that one he had invited at the last minute [...] had to follow a strict diet. Then he changed the menu and running quickly: some selected entrants could also eat their old friend, put away the dishes in the freezer for another occasion and improvised a second course, also splendid, but everyone could eat, and also tweaked the cake and candied fruit instead of fruit put natural. When the hour of dinner, all together ate the same dishes that were offered to host. "
After this long explanation, the teacher asked to his disciples: "Which of these three last-minute guests must have felt more included in the dinner with old friends and acquaintances?"
"Without doubt, the third" , unanimously answered the disciples, without hesitating a moment.
"Indeed," agreed the professor of education. And the lesson continued, saying, "A selective school wants only to those disciples who can eat the menu that is prepared advance: a fixed curriculum. In contrast, an inclusive school is very different. Not even conform to prepare a special menu-a-adapted curriculum for a student who has trouble eating the main menu, ie the mainstream curriculum generates. An inclusive school is one that fits the general menu for everyone to eat, to be a common curriculum. " He concluded: "In an inclusive school, behind how and what is taught there are certain values \u200b\u200bthat make up a very specific way of life."
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