Crossword-Solution: ECOLES 6 letters, 59 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Does it wish to give a career to its choice minds? As a matter of fact, it affords them the meanest opportunities; there is not a man who has issued from the Ecoles who does not bitterly regret, when he gets to be fifty or sixty years of age, that he ever fell into the trap set for him by the promises of the State.

Elsewhere, the perpetual engagement is taken only after several temporary engagements; up to the age of twenty-five the "Fréres des Ecoles Chrétiennes" take their vows for a year; at twenty-five for three years; only at twenty-eight do they take them for life.

According to this principle, the State creates special schools, (today in 1998 called Grande Ecoles[6221]), and, through the indirect monopoly which it possesses, it fills them with listeners; henceforth, these are to furnish the youth of France with superior education.[6222] From the start, Napoleon, as logician, with his usual lucidity and precision, lays it down that they shall be strictly practical and professional.

The level of this exam has decreased year after year and only the preparatory schools for the Grande Ecoles continue to insist on verifying diligence and attention.

Preparation au baccalaureat et aux ecoles de l'Etat), one read these fallacious words, "There is a garden;" when in reality it was only a vulgar court graveled with stones from the river, with a paved gutter in which one could gather half a dozen of lost marbles, a broken top, and a certain number of shoe-nails, and after recreation hours still more.