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PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron of France on Tuesday said building an educational system on the basis of “benevolence” and “self-fulfilment” would help to address “the root-cause” of terrorism.
“Whenever our country is struck in its heart, some people tend to want to tear it up by treating only the symptoms.
“Tackling a part of the root cause is in and through school,’’ Macron told a gathering at a conference on kindergarten in Paris.
In response to critics who denounced his inefficient security policy to prevent terror assaults, the French president proposed to build a school of benevolence and self-fulfillment.
He said it would help to create “a generation which will no longer have to yield to the death drives that were fascinating to some because they did not build their own future.’’
“I do not mean that the school must carry and correct all the injustices, trauma, or excesses, but there is a lot it can do in this field,’’ he said.
France has been a target of militant violence since it joined the fight against Islamist fighters in the Sahel region, Iraq and Syria.
On Friday, a young man who claimed allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) killed three people and wounded 15 others in a hostage-taking incident in southern France.
During the three-day conference, Macron stressed that via education “we build the society that we have to make and we want to see.’’
In this context, he decided to make schooling mandatory as of the age of three instead of six, so that “kindergarten will be a foundational moment in our school career.’’
“The three years of kindergarten are those in which affection is created.
“We want to build a school of benevolence where the cognitive and emotional complement each other,’’ he said. (Xinhua/NAN)
– Mar. 27, 2018 @ 17:09 GMT |
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