Michel Lepeletier and the common education

Abstract

This work contains the analyses of the National Education Plan drawn up by Michel Lepeletier and presented to the Convention by Robespierre on Julay 13th, 1793, seeking to place it within the educational coordinates of the French Revolution. Its most characteristic feature was the proposal of the creation of institutions where all children would receive a common education on a full-board basis, paid for by the Republic. Lepeletier's proposals gave rise to an intense discussion amongst deputies such as Grégoire, Bourdon, Lequino, Fourcroy and Thibaudeau, as well as Robespierre and Danton. The ideas producing the greatest polemic were: the obligatory nature of common education, its financing, the confinement of children in «houses of equality » and the Spartan inspiration behind the projet.

Keywords

• lepeletier
• educación
• revolución francesa