Children know the story, told by Andersen, of this king who discovers himself naked, when everyone is stubborn - out of cowardice, ease, denial, out of stupidity, too... in short, for all those kinds of bad reasons that push men , as Péguy so well noted, to not see what they see - to say it dressed.
The school is there, at the end of the story.
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The temple of knowledge is no longer: the school was to be a sanctuary, it has become the receptacle, and now the revealer, of the evils of the present which are ravaging establishments.
Just the last few days - as far as we know - have seen a Parisian principal who tried to enforce the law banning religious symbols and a philosophy professor from Armentières threatened with death, as well as scenes of clashes with Molotov cocktails in front of a high school in Île-de-France.
Also in recent days, two new reports have come, in quick succession, to translate into statistics and scholarly words the ordeal that...
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