French revolutionary education planted the ideas that armed Algerian revolt

Evidence

Furthermore, with its traditional emphasis on the grandiose liberal principles of the “Great French Revolution”, French education could hardly help but divert perhaps otherwise passive minds to the nobility of revolt. M’hamed Yazid, one of the more intellectual F.L.N. leaders, notes that school heroes for his generation included Mustafa Kemal, Gandhi and the Irish rebels of the First World War. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 182

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly serves the reader’s stated goal of tracing how the French Revolution’s ideals fought back against France in the colonies. — connects to: Semi-clandestine contact with Algerians taught European democrats the laws of revolutionary action.; Partial French education created a frustrated literate-unemployed class that fueled revolt; Rural Algerians underwent a profound revolutionary politicization that French administrators could not reverse. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1249 (+1 more)
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 182