# French Education: Criticism of Egalitarianism and Declining Standards

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119456358906876279
- Source account: [@MarionMarechal](https://x.com/MarionMarechal)
- Source language: French
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:17
- Published: 2026-11-08
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- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sU1szUN2XoZy/fr/%C3%A9ducation-nationale-critique-de-l-%C3%A9galitarisme-et-du-recul-de-l-exigence.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sU1szUN2XoZy/en/french-education-criticism-of-egalitarianism-and-declining-standards) Well, in the name of an egalitarian dogma that rejects the slightest distinction, that denies inequalities in talent, that obscures the role of effort, we have precisely shattered every measure of high standards.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sU1szUN2XoZy/en/french-education-criticism-of-egalitarianism-and-declining-standards?t=16) We decreed that selection was a form of violence, that grades were traumatic and that merit was a fiction.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sU1szUN2XoZy/en/french-education-criticism-of-egalitarianism-and-declining-standards?t=25) So let's look this new education system squarely in the face.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sU1szUN2XoZy/en/french-education-criticism-of-egalitarianism-and-declining-standards?t=30) The French national education system no longer teaches.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sU1szUN2XoZy/en/french-education-criticism-of-egalitarianism-and-declining-standards?t=33) It is surrendering to the very demands that are supposed to be at the heart of its mission.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sU1szUN2XoZy/en/french-education-criticism-of-egalitarianism-and-declining-standards?t=40) And as a result, by constantly trying to include everyone without demanding enough from each person, well, we have precisely ended up raising no one at all, by creating the greatest injustice there is, that is, social confinement to one's place,

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sU1szUN2XoZy/en/french-education-criticism-of-egalitarianism-and-declining-standards?t=56) the inability imposed, the impossibility imposed on children from the most disadvantaged classes to choose their career, their life, their destiny, since we no longer provide them with the basic tools that would allow them to choose,

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/sU1szUN2XoZy/en/french-education-criticism-of-egalitarianism-and-declining-standards?t=70) that is, absolute mastery of the language, logical rigor and the depth of the classical humanities