{"id":41258,"date":"2011-12-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/sur-la-reforme-de-lenseignement-1943\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T02:25:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T01:25:03","slug":"sur-la-reforme-de-lenseignement-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/sur-la-reforme-de-lenseignement-1943\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Reform of Education (1943)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regularly, and particularly on the occasion of the publication of the PISA reports comparing the skills level of 15-year-olds in the OECD countries, France is subject to criticism, with the level of French school students barely reaching the international mean (and tending, generally, to fall), despite a level of education expenditure that is rather higher than the OECD average. This is because, in France, educational tradition regards learning as an end in itself, and as more important than learning to deal with the concrete needs of everyday life, with which the student will have to cope as an adult.
\nThis situation is not new, as is attested by the article we reprint here from the pen of Marc Bloch. Writing in 1943, he deplores all the failings which the school students that we once were \u2013 and those currently studying in French schools \u2013 have already experienced: a culture of cramming, an \u201cobsession with exams\u201d, a neglect of critical thinking, a culture of elitism, an inward-looking attitude and a lack of enthusiasm for concrete applications\u2026 These are characteristics of the French education system which, as Marc Bloch stresses, count against the country, \u201cseriously\u201d impairing its \u201cinternational influence\u201d, providing poor preparation for the crucial issues of scientific research and affording poor adaptability to change.
\nHence the urgent need for thoroughgoing reform, to offer a \u201csecondary education… that is both open and [aimed at] training elites, irrespective of origin or wealth\u201d, to accord a major role to the observation-based disciplines, to enable young people to acquire a \u201ctruthful, comprehensive image of the world\u201d, and to replace the elitist grandes \u00e9coles and \u201crigid faculties\u201d that have ossified around a single specialism with multi-disciplinary groupings. An urgent need that clearly did not convince the decision-makers in charge of French education, since, nearly 70 years later and despite a host of reports making much the same arguments, complaints about the French education system \u2013 such as those expressed by Daniel Gouadain in this same issue \u2013 have barely changed.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regularly, and particularly on the occasion of the publication of the PISA reports comparing the skills level of 15-year-olds in the OECD countries, France is subject to criticism, with the level of French school students barely reaching the international mean (and tending, generally, to fall), despite a level of education expenditure that is rather higher … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1324],"tags":[212],"keyword":[1096,859,893],"class_list":["post-41258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurs-dantan","category-revue-futuribles","tag-societe-en","keyword-reforme-administrative-en","keyword-france-en","keyword-enseignement-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52835,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41258\/revisions\/52835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41258"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=41258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}