[POINT DE VUE] Mr. Le Pen defends vocational education… and the left doesn’t like that! – Boulevard Voltaire

The National Rally has long opted for a strategy which is yielding more and more fruit. Now that demonization has taken place, except in the minds of the media, Marine Le Pen bases her course of action on two pillars: silence and common sense. As for the silence, just read the newspapers and the polls: it is not the RN which identifies immigration as the main cause of many ills, it is the facts. The dark reality works mechanically in favor of the national camp. And as for common sense, the one who is still, for the moment, the natural candidate of the RN, demonstrated it again, Wednesday April 1, while she was at the Global Industrie exhibition, this time on the subject of professional education.

With an appreciable sense of formula, Marine Le Pen proposes fewer university students, particularly in the field of human sciences, and more training (apprenticeship or work-study) in the industrial sector. She recalls on this occasion that a university student costs 15,000 euros per year. At equal cost, the RN would give half of this sum to the company which trains a student, the other half to the student himself, to compensate him during his training. Common sense, once again. We briefly discuss the little dig addressed to sociology students, which we can find petty or jubilant, as we wish.

In any case, it was enough for Matthieu Slama, known for his left-wing political positioning, to rebel against the supposed “Anti-intellectualism” of the equally supposed “extreme-right”. On X, he reacted to Marine Le Pen’s comments with the following sentence: “The anti-intellectualism of the far right. They see school as a factory for producing obedient workers, never as a place of emancipation. Above all, let’s not think! ». This cookie-cutter outing deserves to be stopped for two seconds.

The above-ground vision of Matthieu Slama

The school is not a factory – and even if it were, it would not matter, because the word “factory” is not pejorative. On the other hand, its vocation, in fact, is to produce workers, that is to say people who have a job. Its aim is not to mass produce – to extend the metaphor of the factory – unemployed graduates with a master’s degree in soft sciences, absolutely incapable of producing anything for the common good. And, in fact, with all due respect to Matthieu Slama, the profusion of graduates clutters the labor market in the tertiary sector, while so-called manual professions, as well as those linked to the industry in general, are struggling to recruit.

These are two visions of the world that oppose each other: a vision above ground, in which eternal adolescents, researchers of who knows what, would be assisted by ever more numerous immigrants, who would work in low-skilled professions. By dint of exalting so-called intellectual studies, we make everyone believe that the baccalaureate is a doom.” just like the license. From now on, almost everyone has a master’s degree. The diplomas no longer mean anything. Consequently, the RN is not anti-intellectualist. It considers that the school is the common base of training and, to say it with Mr. Slama, of emancipation. « travailleurs obéissants »HAS ! Is it so shameful not to graduate from university? Is it really more glorious to study sociology than to concretely serve something in society?

The broken record of the left, which knows nothing about the world of work, comes up against reality. The French are fed up. And Matthieu Slama, a caricature from start to finish, is not doing his political family any favors by talking nonsense…