Voltaire will not save anyone

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Friends of Estrangia, you may not know this, but there is a huge debate going on in France at the moment.

Indeed, there is talk of reforming middle school, this fabulous institution welcoming students between the ages of 11 and 15, or even older if they are the type to watch reality TV. In itself, the idea is not bad, since if we were to believe me, we would reform the entire National Education system, preferably in a single night, and with a certain number of napalm canisters (the parents of students will also be targeted in the affair, let's be clear). Yes, but for reasons unknown to me, the current project makes no mention anywhere of the use of flammable substances, or even stupidly corrosive ones. No, it is a question of "  ensuring that students leave middle school having phone number list mastered the basics ." Which is a bit stupid, since the last time I heard, I thought they had to master them to get in, in fact. I must have missed an episode.

But that's not the point. No, the one that's causing apoplectic fits in most of the debate participants is the question of the history curriculum. Because, you see, studying Voltaire and the Enlightenment would become optional. And that, never, you unfortunate!

In all camps, we jumped up, screaming about the approach of the end of time, the drift of youth, and of course, the risk that this entailed, namely, abandoning the teaching of open-mindedness and tolerance in favor of an obscurantism that is very unwelcome in these dark hours of our history, the sound of boots, all that. With many articles that I will pass you over in which we linked non-teaching of Voltaire = the end of civics = radicalization. Poof poof.

It's well known. Let's take the example of 13-year-old Léa. Léa is very unhappy because, on this day, she's caught a bad cold. Bedridden, she can't go to Mr. Burbin's class on the Enlightenment. What's she going to do? Well, there's no shortage of things: just a few hours after missing the class, Léa starts visiting jihadist websites, grows a beard, and soon, tinkers with her bike as a ram-battering vehicle using  Totally Spies!  lunch boxes . The last news is that she was seen charging at a Leclerc tank in the middle of a parade, trying to ram the poor armored vehicle head-on. According to the driver's report , "It made a funny noise, and then nothing.  " Léa, like the Leclerc tank, by the way. French technology, sir.