Having contributed to the UNESCO report Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education as a member of the International Commission and as Chair of the research-drafting committee of this commission, the author now takes the liberty of making some personal notes on the refections advanced therein. This brief article is divided into three sections. The frst presents the main foundations of the social contract of educational modernity (nineteenth century). The second discusses how this contract has
to be renewed today. The third advocates the need to value the common in education, based on fve main ideas: cooperation (in pedagogy), convergence (in curriculum), collaboration (in teaching), conviviality (in schools), and capillarity (in society). Finally, the epilogue defends the urgency of placing human rights at the center of the process of renewing the social contract for education.