(a vision from the outside)
Impassioned at last or just bored, one cannot wonder why the protestors felt the need to cry at all...
The French system is non-entrepreneur friendly and rigid. It does not promote confidence from its workers except in the material safety net that it provides.
People (students even!!!) are campaigning to continue a system that confines. Not only that they are fighting for an administrative state that could easily shift into dictatorship, if its work force become any more complacent.
The University system is as unintelligible for an outsider.
For every work position there appears to be a diploma or certificate necessary just to even be allowed sample a badly paid internship.
There is no free travel between disciplines. Passing a "concours" to enter a good school seems to be as obvious as getting through adolescence with a concrete idea of your future.
The excellent public services and cultural access could surely still exist without such pressures, without such burocracy?! |
