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Article: Fields of Knowledge: French Academic Culture in Comparative Perspective, 1890-1920.(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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In 1925 a French philosophy professor, Edmond Goblot, wrote a book titled La barriere et le niveau in which he presented education as a major social identifier: barrier between the middle and upper classes and the unschooled, unleisured populace below, leveller for different reaches of a bourgeoisie that varied widely in status and wealth. Fritz Ringer reopens a much-discussed question to relate the evolution of educational ideal and practice to the flux of middle-class ideology. His special contribution is that he compares and contrasts France and Germany, illuminating the experience of each by referring to the other. Thus, a work focused on French academic culture during ...