Is It Still Worth Going to School?

Fiston Mumbere Lusenge's Vaut-il encore la peine d'aller à l'école? La rue interrogge l'université, is a profound meditation on the future of education. It's not an anti-school manifesto, but a clear diagnosis of an institution in a crisis of meaning, weakened by digital developments and the aspirations of a youth that now rejects the unfulfilled promises of diplomas.The author forcefully emphasizes that the modern school was born of a political and social project to train disciplined citizens and workers suited to the industrial economy. It represented the republican promise of equal opportunity, replacing academic merit with hereditary privilege.