Father of France

Chapter 243 Inequality Under the Guise of Equality

"Just invest in your name, only in your name. I won't let you take a single franc." Koeman, a chauvinistic man, would never spend a woman's money. Ava Gardner's previous earnings of over a hundred million dollars, since they were given to her, were hers.

"I don't know what to say to you." Ava Gardner's eyes were full of tenderness as she snuggled deeper into the man's arms.

Koeman almost immediately began preparing for the large-scale construction project he had undertaken upon returning to France. He first called his comrade Martin and asked him to help invite French educators such as Sébastien Freyner and Henri Valon to meet with him when they had time.

As for building schools, there's no need to seek anyone's opinion. Building a school is nothing special; all you need is reinforced concrete and a school design. You don't need any advice from educators.

Three polytechnic universities were started in what are now three overseas provinces of Algeria: Oran, Algiers, and Constantinople.

In terms of their positioning, they correspond to French polytechnic universities, with the Algiers Institute of Technology and Engineering corresponding to the École Polytechnique, both being comprehensive polytechnic universities. They emphasize mathematical and physical foundations, cultivating scientists and engineers capable of engaging in cutting-edge scientific exploration.

The university in Oran is called Oran University of Energy and Minerals, which recruits talents for applications in electrical engineering, energy, and mining.

Constantine established an industrial university focusing on mechanical and aerospace engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, civil and environmental engineering, and industrial design, serving industrial and infrastructure development. The entire curriculum revolves around real industrial projects, requiring students to complete the entire process from design and modeling to prototype manufacturing within four years.

The final military academy will also be located in Algiers, named the French Federal University of Defense and Technology. It emphasizes military-civilian integration, with the curriculum highly interconnected with the three aforementioned polytechnic universities for the first two years, requiring officer cadets to have a solid foundation in science and engineering. The latter two years will focus on military applications and professional command.

It implements strict militarized management, and its core curriculum includes national security strategy, military history, leadership skills, and patriotism education, which goes without saying.

These four universities are actually science and engineering universities, and their enrollment scope is naturally rooted in the entire French-speaking world. Otherwise, relying solely on the population base of the overseas provinces, even if Corman spent a huge amount of money to build them, turning them into a third-rate large adult daycare center would be worse than throwing them into the sea.

This certainly requires strong support; it must be a national policy that transcends political parties and is supported by the military, and any government must continuously promote it as a core strategy for national development.

After completing the initial draft, Corman met with his comrade Martin. Upon learning of the plan to establish four science and engineering universities, Martin placed his hand on Corman's forehead and muttered in disbelief, "Are you crazy? Is the climate in French Indochina too hot and has it damaged your brain?"

Martin truly couldn't understand why someone would invest huge sums of money and take on the costs that the country should be contributing. How could there be such a person in the world?

“That’s an education system built around the French military.” Koman slapped Martin’s hand away, baring his teeth. “All you need to know is that this involves military control over overseas provinces, and… it’s Ava who’s investing in it. It has nothing to do with you.”

Koeman knew that his act of paying for the country's financial crisis was indeed unacceptable, so he didn't dare admit that he did it and instead said that Eva Gardner wanted to do it.

"You've always said that Americans have such a good foundation that their minds aren't very sharp, and now it seems that's true."

Martin immediately accepted Koeman's explanation. Otherwise, how could such a wicked, rotten humanoid do such a thing? The 400,000 innocent souls of Madagascar are outraged; what are we lacking?
Ava Gardner never showed up, but she earned the nickname "American goofball" from Martin, and was unjustly targeted by a poppy dealer's malice.

“Isn’t this a good thing? All we’re missing now is an education system centered around the military, otherwise the military control over the overseas provinces feels like something’s missing,” Koman explained. “Actually, we lack the title of a ‘military preparedness province’ to bring all three overseas provinces under its jurisdiction, which would make it more legitimate.”

A "war preparedness province" refers to a provincial-level administrative region that plays a pivotal role in the country's response to potential conflicts or emergencies in terms of geographical location, industrial base, economic strength, resource reserves, or military deployment.

In this way, military control would be more legitimate, and the actions of the French army in the overseas provinces would be more justifiable.

After listening to Corman explain the concept of the War Preparedness Department, Martin said, "It's not easy at all. Without a major event, the Paris government won't agree to everything the French military command in Algeria says." "Let's think about it carefully." Corman suddenly had a flash of inspiration. The British mandate was coming to an end, and the Israeli-Palestinian war was bound to break out. There were still 100,000 Jews in the Algerian overseas provinces.

One hundred thousand Jews is not a small number in Algeria, and the status of Algerian Jews is not low.

The presence of Jews in the overseas provinces was fine for French immigrants, but it was a glaring problem for Muslims, who felt it was extremely unfair. They were also under French rule, yet due to the indigenous legal code, they were treated as "French subjects" without political rights.

France's divide-and-rule strategy elevated the legal status of Jews to a level similar to that of French immigrants, while excluding Muslims.

If a war breaks out between Israel and Palestine, this hatred towards Jews will become even more pronounced.

Since France is prepared to assimilate the Jews completely, it will not continue to use the divide-and-rule policy in the overseas provinces under military control in the short term. The Jews will leave sooner or later, and France will not be able to use them even if it wants to. So it is better to use the blood of the Jews to achieve France's goals.

Koeman had to admit that after traveling around Asia and Africa, he was no longer so averse to the idea of ​​"dying one's hat with blood."

Two days later, Martin helped two educators invited by Corman, Selstein Freyner and Henri Valon, to meet Corman at an upscale restaurant.

"Why did you choose District 16 as the meeting place?" Selstein Freyner asked Henry Valon, somewhat puzzled. The latter also said he didn't know.

Koeman was unaware of his underlying bias towards the Russian woman, almost revealing his true colors. But precisely because he was unaware, he was still smugly embracing Ava Gardner, waiting for the two to arrive.

Both were renowned scholars in the field of French education. Henri Valon founded the Valon school, and Valon affirmed the positive significance of Pavlov's theory of conditioned reflexes in psychology from the perspective of psychobiology. He believed that the driving force for children's psychological, conscious, and personality development should be sought in the interaction between living organisms, including psychological phenomena, and their surrounding environment.

Essentially, it's a school of thought that focuses on children's mental health and applies it to the field of education to promote children's education. Its aim is to ensure that all children, regardless of their social background, can receive an equal education.

This aligns perfectly with Corman's original intention to make the Polytechnic University accessible to the entire French-speaking world, so Corman plans to invite Henri Valon to endorse his education system, though with a slightly different purpose.

Although the principle is that all children, regardless of their social origin, should have equal access to education.

But Corman argues that mathematics should filter out all potential idiots as early as possible, leaving only children with genuine mathematical talent, who are the real talents France needs.

In addition to previously considering that STEM fields could shield women from their influence, Koeman also wanted to use them to shield Africans.

Mathematics will not bury any genius. If a mathematician does not have earth-shattering achievements before the age of thirty, and cannot surpass his teacher in mathematical knowledge before the age of eighteen, then there is basically no possibility of him becoming a late bloomer.

Mathematical talent usually emerges in childhood, and for science and engineering students who are selected for mathematical talent, it is perfectly sufficient to continue until the age of eighteen.

Such a harsh subject would be perfect for isolating mediocre Black people, and no one could find fault with it. It's a subject that anyone who understands it will understand. It won't let Black people off the hook just because it's politically correct and doesn't discriminate against them, because the power to grade isn't in the teacher's hands.

Therefore, for Koeman, the greatest role of the Valonian school was to exploit inequality beneath the surface of the ideal of equality. It was to use the mathematics of equality to practice unequal selection.

(End of this chapter)