Edmond Demolins
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
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| SURNAME | Demolins, Edmond |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French reform pedagogue, founder of rural education home |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1907 |
| Place of death | Caen |