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This article highlights the importance of the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child for the education of children and adolescents. The Convention lays out the rights of children and adolescents in 54 articles and, for the first time in history, it emphasizes the fact that young persons are endowed with inalienable rights from the moment they are born and have, therefore, their own legal rights. With regards to pedagogy, the Convention also had an immediate impact on education since children and adolescents suddenly became the focus of their own learning processes.