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https://educationalevidence.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/flag-3283466_1280-1.jpg900597The French Revolution of the eighteenth century, aside from its well-documented penchant for severing heads, also ushered in a bold new educational vision, rooted firmly in Enlightenment ideals. At its heart lay the ambition that everyone should have access to basic culture and knowledge. Nowadays, France, the mother of it all, has suffered what can only be described as an educational miscarriage. Her revolutionary guillotine has symbolically castrated its once visionary Enlightenment.