Educational System in France

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The Reforms in the French Education System

DALY Peter

Dealing with the topic : "The French education System is elitist and in serious need of reform"

Thinking about learning as a repeated task along our lives does not necessarily means that it is an easy one. As well as with any another cultural construction, it is frequent to be imbued with the common sense and to think about education as a static and crystallized method among the passing years. It is a trend to consider teaching as if it has always been there and even, as if it has been sustaining certain continuity through the passing decades. Maybe this is the main reason that leads us to notice the most recognizable symptoms of its decay and to believe that "it was better before ". Therefore, it is a labor of the specialists and of the intellectual ones to build a thought that places education as a phenomenon in space and in time.

As well as education, elitism has also been seen through the years as a word meaning a privileged minority