This article explores the possibility of educating to student’s otherness in the school setting. While schools are responsible for passing on knowledge, they are also responsible for passing on values. In this respect, teaching is a matter of morality, as a means of shaping the pupil's relational dispositions. This is what we intend to emphasize in the three parts of this paper. The first section looks at the importance of humanistic education in schools, and what we mean by education to otherness. The second part takes a didactic perspective and presents, in its generic form, the cooperative meeting as a didactic institution at the Freinet School (in Vence, Alpes-Maritimes department). The final section analyzes a specific episode of a cooperative meeting, in an attempt to show how this device is similar to what Freinet called a "moral cure", that is, taking care of the fundamental moral question of the conditions of encounter between subjects.