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“The school, this abandoned sanctuary”

2024-03-10T19:27:50.935Z

Highlights: ‘The school has become the receptacle, and now the revealer, of the ills of the present which are ravaging the country’ ‘The temple of knowledge is no longer. The school is there, at the end of the story.’ The school was to be a place of learning, not a place to be killed. ‘It’s the school that is the problem, not the school,’ says a former student of the school. “The school is not the problem. It is the people.”


THE FIGARO EDITORIAL - School has become the receptacle, and now the revealer, of the ills of the present which are ravaging establishments.


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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