Emendata

In a context of a communal literacy campaign, Jean Langevin's publishing of Pedagogical Class or Educational Principles, in 1865, has a purpose.

From the school subjects to the teachers' recommended behavior, including the students' hygiene control and the practice of corporal punishments, this pedagogical approach claims to realistic bases: most of the young men will become farmers and it is expected that women suffer from a marriage with a man less educated than themselves.

The national colonization project invites to choose carefully to whom the knowledge privilege is given and to early mentor those who have a priestly vocation.