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Secretary of State for Education in the Messmer government from 1973 to 1974, Jacques Limouzy, whose culture is known, intelligence and humor in a subtle writer talent department, wrote in 1984 / 85 "revolt illiterate", a book of devastating humor whose target is in fact the Minister of Education of the time (Alain Savary) and the University reform, and the education in general, we remember that it will end up in the street under the battering of the proponents of free school without that vanish some devastating concepts of education and teaching .
Thirty years later this work is highly topical at a time when the reform of the school Mrs. Belkacem unanimity against it. But this fact is less surprising as it sounds, because the "initiator" of this umpteenth reform project are, if not the same as those that inspired the Savary law, at least convinced the disciples of fashion ideas regarding education and society, following the events of May '68.
The book by Jacques Limouzy comes in the form of the tribulations of the story of a fictional minister of Education and his team will "roll over" one by one their "progressive" ideas. The culture of the author, his sense of the phrase, common sense observations can only delight the reader at a time when disputes mentioned in the book are the headlines and where opinion notes the harm certain utopias implemented in three decades
There are certain books that should be reissued.