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Controversys

What is at the center of education : the child or knowledge ?
Letter n°5, May 2003

 In his “letter to all those who love school”, the French Minister of Youth and Education, Luc Ferry, presents a rather gloomy picture of compulsory education in France. As summarized in “Le Monde”, the first weakness, which amounts to a “scandal”, is illiteracy, long denied by the politicians. The second deficiency is “unacceptable”: 158,000 young people left the educational system in 2002 with neither diploma nor qualifications. The third difficulty is “troubling”: more than 80,000 serious acts of violence were reported in educational institutions in 2002. More

 

 

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