ABSTRACT
In his Circular of the 29th September 1952, M. C. Brunold, Inspector-General of Secondary Education, wrote of the ‘élites which we wish to train’, of their future role, and of their inescapable involvement in action. What increasingly characterizes these Elites, he wrote, is ‘their participation, deliberate or involuntary, in this action, and the obligation they are under to discover, to create, and to decide for or against’. Humanism is not, in his view, an end in itself, but rather a tool for the discovery of the world and oneself.
