Hello everyone
I will tell you the story of Enzo
enzo
like a lot of kids his age is going
enter kindergarten in september
next
what he does not know yet is who is going
to confront a huge male and
invisible this evil is conformism the
conformist begin to manifest themselves
from kindergarten we start having
evaluations even though it’s still
notes we start taking a
language not just any language a
particular language and so
general his debut of pressure
social group pressures at school
enzo learn to read with pump and
reflect
but he will also understand that for
to have a sesame of an evaluation
positive
we will have to comply with the system
the college of which kenzo in shenzhen
year is confirmed will take off the water
will start to learn the
mechanisms of the dissertations which is to
share is equal for all and college
by the way under the guise of equality is going
select high school now it’s
the advent is the culmination of
this logic the temple of conformism
with its non-nonconformist rhythm of the
ferry the ferry that for those without a doubt
that they spent and more than one ordeal
where the goal is to relocate the most
possible knowledge at a given moment
is not so much the reflection of a true
doping learning does what we
sees is that at each at each
stage we find conformism and
all this system works a little on
injunction
walk or die either
enzo will comply in this case there
has good results
he has the directions who wants he
reaches into good channels and I
do not throw very landmarks because
me even if I’m here by the banks
today is that I knew in
benefit from this conformism
but if the water on the other hand has trouble
if there are gaps if he does not understand
what is expected of him here at Nimes in
the plate and his knowledge about the
paper
tired the difficulties begin because
that we are going to be redoubled enzo
may be hugging and doing a
die against his will and maybe
that enzo will even be in check
school and get off and when we see
what is being said about
school we see that cases like enzo
d enzo in difficulty there are many
it is common knowledge that
the French school is selective
unequal and unable to respond
at school failure
then these date premiums
obviously not yesterday and some are going
seek recourse to the return bardon
the school of the 50s of the 60s
even for the more daring to
the school of the third republic and
they will argue that at the time the
master was all powerful
the obedient student and that failure
did not exist you can imagine it’s
false
this school is a myth this school
is a fantasy she probably has
never existed and what is certain is
that there will never be anything
must today is a break
radical with conformism a
true educational revolution
you will tell me yes but a wide
part of the difficulties are not
explained by conformism and you
are right there is of course weakness
means
there is of course the problem of
inequalities but the question of
conformism and too often obscured this
moment and when we hear the opinion
public who often blame the
youth passivity they miss
initiative and that on the other side we
sees these young people who answer in a
some way dreaming of leaving
the France and I do not know if you have
heard but a few months ago
there was the story of this
student who wrote to françois
Holland
the reasons for his expatriation when one
see that we understand
me personally anyway I
understand those people my age who
have a hard time finding themselves in this
system of an educational system that is
not tender that was very demanding
can be too demanding that sets the
very high bar in terms of
knowledge in terms of skills
and which ultimately leaves little room for
creativity where the personality
I’m not trying to blacken
table
I do not seek a brain chart
since the post-war period with everything
we know about democratization the
massification according to the points of view and
especially since these last thirty
years of reforms were made
to put the student a little more to
center of the system be it by the
setting up to accompany
personalized support to
middle school and high school by the test of
personal work supervised at
baccalaureate that forces students to
think in groups or even
by the presence at the baccalaureate
artistic proof is optional
aims a little bit at putting evaluation
extracurricular also in the
bachelor’s degree and even the last
college reform
whatever we think about it also goes in
that sense but these reforms are without
doubt insufficient in view of the stakes
which must be answered before
school must be public school
after the war was to form
citizens and seasoned workers
who would be obedient when he
must and discreet remains time the
conformism was not a problem
because the school had to be
homogenizing you are today we have it
seen with the crisis of the school system
with the new issues they are
ecological social policies
societal
the stakes are others who said stake
other said new system from where
the interest of a radical reform but
attention this radical reform does not
does not mean breaking and total abandonment of the
current system the French system
even if we can criticize it remains to
in many ways better than
other alternatives is an example in
is the dissertation
because on one side the dissertation
it is an eminently republican tool
a tool that forces students to
take a stand to reflect on a
subject and to confront the different
positions on it but it’s also a
tool that can be stigmatizing
because the difficulty of life
difficulty of the dissertation is not
of the same for all some are going
assimilated the mechanism very quickly
others have a lot more trouble and he
is a huge problem of methodology
of a French system because we share
the principle that everyone is equal
face this difficulty but this is
not the case everyone does not have
the codes of the dissertation and if we do not
does not have the codes one can not
play the game we can not adopt
critical position or to have
reflection that’s why and the
dissertation by the way like any
which exercise can not be summed up in
only store knowledge
maybe it goes through a little bit
less learning but a
better learning and
the purpose of all this is to organize the
reflection initiated the reflection of a
try to organize the debate where the
students might even should
give their opinion from their
knowledge but also and especially
from their own opinion
school can not be reduced to the
only evaluation and evaluation
besides which I do not like
of interest must also be seen must
to be reviewed to be more positive
to really rely on knowledge
acquired and not system compliance
the note should not be an end
she must remain a medium and the average
this famous 10 out of 20 does not have to be a
cleaver you probably know the
constant macabre phenomenon which is
means a constant percentage of
bad grades no matter the duty
no matter which teacher no matter to
class this phenomenon actually describes the
disconnect between notes and know and the
problem with the addiction of
connections between notes and know it’s
that evaluation
I’m doing more on some
objective thing but is done on the
compliance with the system and therefore fight
against conformism it’s also
accept and anticipate difficulties
at school is questioning
the idea al damiri single brother and a
archetype of good students to whom he
would absolutely comply is
accept that merit and plural and
that each one a potential and that’s saying
that’s not calling into question the
quality of a system where the quality
given diplomas
it’s only accepting the fact that we
can not train a student
excellent at the price of abandoning nine
other weaker students say this
not everyone is accepting
potential and that the school does not have to
to format this potential
so some people also say very
present in the public debate that
the school is not good enough for the
professional life to the requirements
of business knowledge acquired are
too abstract but I think it’s
rather the contrary
school is no longer a place of
learning training but become
rather an institution where we have to
apply knowledge and that’s it’s a
problem and the school can not we
will boil down to an apprenticeship of
interested conformism he sweeps
any notion of learning
interested it boils down to actually a
simple mechanism ingested and
regurgitate knowledge and the school and
I think can go further from there a
example in n maybe some of between
they know the currency the currency is
a show ridden by the theater
dijon bourgogne a few months ago and who
was played in high schools and as
his name indicated the purpose was to
to reflect on the translated meaning
French what involved
today and especially to debate
the students on after the play and
it works and it worked because
just for once we asked the
students what they thought not
only to apply and accept
mechanically the motto freedom
equality fraternity but also to
think about the meaning and that I think
really that it is possible to
the scale of all schools and
the whole of France
it is possible and even necessary for
that students may have a setback
on what they learn can have
a rain a critical position so that
themselves can exceed their
own prejudices and also put
end to self exclusion and self
disqualification that drives some to
failure
we must break these mentalities
we must reject conformism for
create a new school a school
where the social mix would be assured
a school where schools
would be co-managed by the students and
the staff
a school where classes would be
maybe smaller but to students
to better accompany and a school where
the note would not be determinative of
all the rejection of conformism is
that a first step in this long
way to school in the 21st century
a school that would not wait
enslave south but free will
a school that would train citizens
engaged and politicized and not
passive citizens we deserve better
that a eugenic school a school that
could have very well imagined him
succeeds at sea of the worlds the
conformism is not the exclusive preserve of
totalitarianism
it exists in our democracies and
was a great danger it is for
that we have to chase the
conformism our school is the 21st
century will be the century of school
contrarian or will not be thank you
[Applause]
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