French Public School Isn’t Failing. It’s Doing Exactly What It Was Built to Do.

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Nico_Largi ⚠️ Small correction: around 7:14, I say that one in five young people is illiterate. The actual figure is about 1 in 20 who are functionally illiterate, and more than 1 in 5 if you add those who have "reading difficulties." It doesn't change the substance, but better to be accurate. * Book: Raised to Obey – Agustina S. Paglayan: https://tinyurl.com/3hxp8vyd * General School Regulations of Prussia: https://tinyurl.com/2k7arfy4 * Guizot's teaching guidelines (in French): https://tinyurl.com/yyu6kstd * Guizot's letter to schoolteachers (in French): https://tinyurl.com/9ua7xxah * Ratus et ses amis (French first-grade reading book): easy to find with a quick search * My video on the destruction of the family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DADEGSI3IvI * Jordan Peterson – Hierarchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iUHbalzKgk * Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire: https://tinyurl.com/2fpbe9zu * UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy – Julian Huxley: https://tinyurl.com/4tfn9e3r * UNESCO report on homeschooling: https://tinyurl.com/y2bzctke * What Is France? – Julien Rochedy (in French): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd8Zt3hKujc * Interview with Joachim Le Floch-Imad – Epoch Times France (in French): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AESkLPMioE4 * Book "Main basse sur l'Éducation nationale" (in French): https://tinyurl.com/bddkd8er If you like my content and want to support the channel so I can make more videos: Support with Bitcoin (BTC): bc1qqk858l6c9szd2kdgw03x07es5q6vusdwj9ejzc Support with Ethereum (ETH & tokens): 0x2769B72FA214308e86842Ff2eaa1A7bA0b05e5b1 Support on Tipeee: https://fr.tipeee.com/mecanique-des-cages Thank you so much! 💪 Every contribution helps me spend more time on the videos and dig deeper into the topics you love! 0:00 French high school blockades: why their demands won't change anything 2:14 The purpose of a system is what it does 3:53 Why do we send our kids to school? 5:29 The real level: PISA, TIMSS, functional illiteracy 8:30 National exams and honors (brevet, bac): a Potemkin village 11:33 Absolute vs. relative knowledge: why more funding won't change anything 17:17 Why nobody wants to be a teacher anymore 19:29 Does the State really want what's best for your children? 21:40 Why public school was really created: Prussia 24:39 Guizot and the birth of the French school system 29:53 The myth that school was created for industry 33:03 Morals in textbooks, then and now 35:20 From quiet subjects to activists: how we got here 35:58 Marx (theory section) 39:01 Gramsci: taking power through people's minds 44:05 The Frankfurt School 47:32 Marcuse and repressive tolerance 50:32 Paulo Freire: ideology enters the classroom 56:41 UNESCO and Julian Huxley: the global project 1:04:51 In practice: inside your children's classroom 1:05:58 Color-coded grades and points "for effort" 1:08:44 History, geography, literature 1:12:26 Learning to obey, manufacturing victims 1:17:32 EVARS (France's sex education program) and gender theory in schools 1:20:31 What crises are for 1:23:01 Pronote (school management platform), data and digital identity 1:24:21 Social impact investing: your children's failure as an investment 1:25:48 Back to the original question 1:27:31 Homeschooling 1:30:38 What you can do as parents 1:36:40 The book to read