Partial French education created a frustrated literate-unemployed class that fueled revolt

Evidence

The little French learning was also dangerous, in that it aroused a powerful appetite for more; and it threatened (because of economic problems) to create a class of “literate unemployed”. In words that could have applied to more than just education, an old Kabyle complained sadly to Germaine Tillion: “You’ve led us to the middle of the ford, and there you’ve left us.…” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 181 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

To our worries, which the last resistances of barbarism have created, must be added the worries of watching the deviations of those at the avant-garde of evolution, those who are exercised by vain ambitions. At the head of this avant-garde, we find those who have been educated in our schools, whom we have employed in our administration. Abruptly torn from their milieu, without yet possessing sufficient aptitudes to adapt to their new milieu, these uprooted Africans suffer from their isolation, chafe against their lack of power, and, ceding to the perfidious suggestions that aggravate racial hatreds, soon become rebels. Such is the inevitable price paid for too rapid evolutions. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 703 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Partial colonial education created a literate unemployed class who felt abandoned — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 181; French revolutionary education planted the ideas that armed Algerian revolt — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 182; French schooling created a rootless, rebellious African educated elite. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 703 (+1 more)

Related

• Partial colonial education created a literate unemployed class who felt abandoned (similarity 0.86)
• French revolutionary education planted the ideas that armed Algerian revolt (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries. (similarity 0.81)
• French schooling created a rootless, rebellious African educated elite. (similarity 0.81)
• The 1883 colonial authorities abandoned manual training for a managerial caste system (similarity 0.80)
• Semi-clandestine contact with Algerians taught European democrats the laws of revolutionary action. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Partial colonial education created a literate unemployed class who felt abandoned #corroborates (0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 181
• French schooling created a rootless, rebellious African educated elite. #corroborates (0.80) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 703
• French revolutionary education planted the ideas that armed Algerian revolt #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 182
• French officials feared emancipation ideas would incite educated Africans to seek leadership #corroborates (0.55) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 666