[DANS VOS COMMENTAIRES] “the ignorant are more docile than the educated”

« My homeland is the French language », said Albert Camus, this uprooted pied-noir. “ Defending the French language is a duty for me », affirmed Charles Aznavour, whom our President did not fail to quote to extol the merits of immigration, “ this French language which grounds us and unites us. Politicians should give priority to thinking about this force “. adds Fabrice Luchini, well known for handling our language to perfection, he who comes from a family of Italian origin.

This past week, between the very ideological summit of the Francophonie described by our journalist Gabriel Decroix, who concludes that “ the International Summit showed that the Francophonie was a large community where language was not the only priority “, and the distressing observation of the incapacity of students to learn their language, so much so that we would even give up teaching it, as our columnist Marie Delarue explains, one wonders if the wealth that have seen all these lovers of the French language is not also being squandered by those who should be its first defenders! Readers of BV can only be moved by it, like Roswall, who asks: “ What decadence. How did we get there? » Or like MmmH, who looks for the culprits of this loss: “ To teach children and young people properly, adults must first respect each other. And respect them […] So let’s not go looking for why we make little donkeys: if we talk to them like that, it’s OUR fault ».
“At the same time”, to paraphrase our President, and as Anne Aurore Angelique points out, “ the subsidy for the defense of the French language has fallen and the President speaks in English when he is in Germany… » In this, our commentator agrees with Poseidon, who laughs: “ We have a President who “defends” the French language; This is also why he speaks as often as he can in… English! »

But we can also wonder: what is the cause of such abandonment of our national heritage which once made Charles V say that “ the French language is the state language, the only one suitable for big business » ? It’s true that we could be ironic like Vieuréac: “ We have to find other unifying elements, because at the rate the school is falling, in 10 years we will no longer be able to claim to be part of it… of the French-speaking world. “. How can we prove our reader wrong, when we see the battle, reported to us by our journalist Clémence de Longraye, led by the media against institutions like Stanislas, in particular, who strive to cultivate high standards in the transmission of knowledge. Perhaps his fault, as Jill points out, would be that “ Stanislas somehow cultivates elitism… it’s unbearable, in an egalitarian society, where leveling down is now the rule. Elitism necessarily generates a form of discrimination “. Wasp quips ironically: “A school that does its job is disturbing “. And Smartlady endorses the diagnosis: “ Of course, a high school that pulls students up is disturbing, in a society where we advocate ignorance and lack of culture as an initial value – the ignorant are always more docile than the educated! » One wonders if Josee Perlaut is not right: “ The left is angry with elitism and meritocracy »…
It is true that French is placed in the category of the most difficult languages ​​to learn, and because of this, she would be on her way to palliative care, a consequence, undoubtedly, of the end of the cult of effort. … An inestimable loss since, as Nestorin points out, “ At the time when the vast majority of the population spoke “patois” and did not know how to write, the French dreamed of educating their children, so that they could have a better life than them. Now, in the hope that it will be easier for them to find paying work, they are making them learn English (well, Globish). “. It was not Napoleon Bonaparte, mocked in his youth for his Corsican accent and ardent enemy of the perfidious Albion, who would have said the opposite, he who considered that “ France is French when it is well written ».

That said, after Sandrine Rousseau rejoiced at the impoverishment of the French, commentators cannot help but notice that the boredom, with the leveling down, the lack of demands and elitism of the National education is that the diplomas that our elites rely on no longer carry much weight in establishing their credibility in public opinion, like Tarelcire: “ As for his intelligence and these diplomas, given the current level in National Education, desired, it is true, by these same leftists, these do not have much value in my eyes “. Who is far from being the only one to take this up! Thus RichardDean cannot help but correct a mistake in Ms. Rousseau’s tweet: “ I would dream (conditional with if it was offered to me, if it happened, if…) of having this ministry! » And to quote his file Wikipedia : « “Teacher-researcher… she obtained a doctorate in economics with the congratulations of the jury”. Teacher, researcher, doctor in eco sciences with congratulations from the jury, who does not know how to write in French. How can lack of culture and lack of reflection be associated with diplomas and notable intellectual functions? The fall of a civilization ».

« The History of France begins with the French language. Language is the main sign of a nationality », thought Jules Michelet. The decline of education, particularly of language, is also that of the transmission of our History. Defending the French language in its beauty and its demands is becoming more than ever a necessity that our readers have well understood.

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