Edmond Demolins

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Edmond Demolins (* 1852 in Marseille ; † 1907 in Caen ) founded the French version of the British country school Abbotsholme and the Bedales founded by Badley in 1893 : the École des Roches in Verneuil-sur-Avre (today: Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton , Your ) in Normandy . It still exists today as an elitist boarding school.

Demolins visited Abbotsholme and copied a lot. He, too, provided for an elitist education in the boarding school. He published two widely acclaimed books: A quoi tient la supériorité des Anglo-Saxons? (Paris 1897) and L'Education nouvelle . He justified his reforms with the superiority of the English schools as a means in the struggle of peoples, which in France had to be contrasted with something of equal value. The books have been translated into many European languages ​​as well as into Arabic and received a great deal of attention. In England there was even a critical rethinking of the first phase of reform.

Fonts

  • L'Education nouvelle. L'École des Roches . Paris. 1898 (French)
  • A quoi tient la supériorité des Anglo-Saxons? . Paris 1897