Day of mourning

the Marseillaise

Being a teacher means spotting a glow that you have been able to light in the eyes of the pupils, it is being happy when you have them." react to what moves you;

it is to have ambition for them and to open the doors to them because those of the mind and of knowledge are infinite, it is to develop their critical spirit to make them free.

All of this, Samuel, you knew, and better yet, you embodied it

on the occasion of this tribute to the Sorbonne, the Head of State will also address the teaching staff in his speech.

'He will also take the opportunity to recall all that has been done in recent days in the fight against radical Islam.

He will send messages, '

On the move yesterday to Bobigny, the Head of State also recalled that the acts would intensify in the coming days.

A way of responding to those who reproach him for talking a lot and not doing enough

this tribute ceremony is the marker of the rejection of obscurantism,

Ouest France.

This is the time to strongly reaffirm that education, knowledge and culture are not reserved for the few who would guide a people of ignorant people.

On the contrary, in the world as we understand it, education forms the substratum of society.

By attacking a professor, it is the Republic that we are harming.

Ouest France

everyone is waiting for the State to act to better protect national education.

It is indeed his responsibility to preserve this pillar of the Republic.

But it is also the duty of all of us to stand alongside teachers and school directors to support them in the exercise of their mission, the future of our children and our society is at stake.

May the teachers feel a surge of commitment on our part!

However, the problem does not date from yesterday,

Le Figaro

: at the beginning of the 2000s, the inspectors general of National Education take up the pen: led by Jean-Pierre Obin, they describe how difficult it has become to to teach when obscurantism, violence and lack of culture have taken hold of brains.

But who cares ?

The report describes so well the embarrassment, avoidance or fear that grips adults in the face of the Islamist offensive that it ends,

in the limbo of National Education.

It is this kind of omerta nourished by multiple denials and sometimes complacency,

Le Figaro, that must now be put to an end

What should be the priorities for the years to come?

Liberation

Education should be at the top of the game when you consider that today's children and teens will produce tomorrow's society.

And we can not imagine that it does not respect these values ​​of the Republic that Samuel Paty was working to teach his students and for which he was brutally murdered.

Values ​​which seem obvious to many but which are more and more difficult to teach in an increasingly divided and individualized world, in which social networks carry everything, like a wave, in their path

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the assassination of Samuel Paty is a grim reminder of the overhang in which social networks are held: they remain on the sidelines of the right to respect for people when it comes to to handle aggressive messages.

Because the economic model of the platforms does not spontaneously go towards the censorship of anger and indignation known to boost the audience.

This requires regulatory authorities to repeatedly glance over and over again.

(…) If freedom of expression must be protected, the impunity granted to it by certain channels is no longer defensible.