EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS IN FRANCE
Roger Fauroux, former minister of parliament and schools director and head of a recent government commission on the national school system, stated in the June 28th, 1996 issue of Le Figaro Magazine that "The national education system is poisoned by taboos, by the unmentionable, by political correctness; no one has the right to say that the emperor has no clothes, while everyone can see it."
Books of Interest
Schools for Barbarians
Isabelle Stal and Francoise Thom (Claridge Press: London: 1988)
Translated by Ken Connolly
"In this penetrating study, two French
schoolteachers show that France has experienced a similar crisis [to that of other
nations], and a failure in the consensus needed to resolve it. In the country of the
regimentd curriculum and the centralised examination, the same complaints are heard as are
voiced by inner city parents in Britain [and elsewhere]."
"...where there was once respect and dignity there is now
complete indiscipline adn do-as-you-please indifference... Schools for Barbarians
is not simply a straightforward account of things as they are... neither is it a narrative
of disillusion: these young women... have thought deeply about the question and offer the
reader an explanation of it." --From the back cover.
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