Wondering why conspiracy theories are so popular?
Why do so few people understand the principle of the presumption of innocence?
Why do so many people believe that if you’re against multiculturalism, you’re against multicultural societies?
Why is censorship all the rage in educational institutions?
Why do so many young activists not understand that a word can have several meanings depending on the context in which it is used?
Why do so many young people believe that slavery was widespread in Quebec?
Why is the younger generation so little interested in defending French?
Why do so few people understand the true meaning of the word “fascism”?
Why do more and more people believe that an insult is an argument?
Do not search anymore.
The answer to these questions is hidden in a text that was published in The newspaper on October 4, 2016.
THE BEST
“Among Quebecers aged 16 to 65 who have a university degree, 27% have reading difficulties and can even be considered functional illiterates,” wrote my colleague Daphnée Dion-Viens.
In good French, that means they can read a text, but they don’t really understand what it means.
I repeat: we were talking about UNIVERSITY graduates.
That is to say, the creme de la creme.
Imagine the others…
You are going to tell me that this text is six years old.
Do you think things have really changed since then? I doubt. I highly doubt it.
The truth is, we reap what we sow for decades.
He who sows complacency reaps ignorance.
Who keeps lowering the bar to pass the maximum number of students reaps mediocrity.
Here we are.
Since the time we lower the level, that’s it, we’re in it to the teeth.
CAILLOU’S MOTHER
“It’s the economy, stupid!” said James Carville, Bill Clinton’s adviser, to George W. Bush’s Republicans.
In other words: stop talking about war and guns, and talk about the real things that affect ordinary people, i.e. the unemployment rate, job creation, the power of purchase, etc.
Well, I feel like shouting: “It’s education, stupid people! »
There is only one way, only one, to pull a society up.
Education, education, education.
What is currently happening in Quebec is the fruit of decades of laissez-faire and complacency, decades of stupid reforms, decades spent lowering the bar, foolishly and foolishly associating “demand” and “elitism”, ” discipline” and “authoritarianism”, “rigor” and “punishment”.
We wanted an education system that looked like Caillou’s mother?
Well, we got it.
And look at the result.
People who read a column and who are not even able to tell the difference between the first and the second degree.
Directors of institutions who, instead of defending the Great Culture, tremble before the absurd demands of excited activists.
It has come to pass that even in science departments, teachers and researchers are no longer judged on the basis of their skills!
That’s what happens…