Ambroise Tournyol du Clos is an associate professor of history and geography and author of
Transmit or disappear, Manifesto of a craftsman teacher
(Salvator, 2021).
A consolation prize in difficult times, futurism is always the revealer of the wounds that we do not want to see.
Also, as if to better exorcise the evils of the school of the present, the President of the Republic recently enjoined us to hope in a “school of the future” whose prototype remains uncertain.
The more blurred are the outlines, the broader our hopes.
However, nothing says that this projection into a future that escapes us is the surest way to save the school from the impasses in which it finds itself today.
Wouldn't it be better to repair the school of the present, taking into account the lessons of the past, to spare us the possibility of a future?
Lessons from the school of the past
The ideal school never existed, neither under the Third Republic, nor under the Ancien Régime, nor in the medieval Sorbonne, nor among the tutors...
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