#Education in France

[akongohscolumn]

How PhD Defences Look Like Abroad

How PhD Defences Look Like Abroad

A young Cameroonian researcher has brilliantly defended a PhD thesis at the Université de L’île in France. The thesis, entitled Profitability, Efficiency and Risk in Banking and Microfinance, was defended on December 12, 2022, and was open to the public via a Zoom link. Dr Votsoma DJekna was formerly a lecturer at the Catholic University Institute of St Jerome Douala, Cameroon, before travelling…

[historyguide]

Wheat Field with Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh.

[without-ado]

Kimia Yousofi of Afghanistan flips her bib after competing in the women's 100m preliminary round. Yousofi finished last but sent a message just by stepping on to the track, advocating for women in Afghanistan after fleeing the country to chase her Olympic dream, revealing a sign that read "education," "sport" and "our rights.".

REUTERS/Alina Smutko l SAINT-DENIS, France l Paris 2024

[zevranunderstander]

number #1 tactic that people use to not sound as racist as they are when they talk to black people: 'uhh so you AMERICANS need to stop pretending everything is about YOU. why should i know this im not from the us :/' (= is talking about like. a phenomenally internationally well-known black artist)

[queerism1969]

[worldhistorian1845]

Countries with the Most WW2 Aircraft

United States | Total: 324,750 Aircraft

USSR | Total: 157,261 Aircraft

United Kingdom | Total: 131,549 Aircraft

Germany | Total: 119,371

Japan | Total: 76,320 Aircraft

Italy | Total: 11,112 Aircraft

France | 5,276 Aircraft

[marcelskittels]

RICHARD CARAPAZ ‹ Tour de France 2024 - Stage 3 › 📸 by Dario Belingheri/Getty Images

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

Ah, yes, a country famously known for having Judaism as its state religion, FRANCE. Uber-secular, state-sponsored-atheism-enthusiast, Historically Catholic, ~30%Christian/~10%Muslim/<1% Jewish, home-of-the-Dreyfus-affair motherfucking FRANCE.

Y'all are so STUPID it goes beyond just hate.

(Also wtf is this wording on Wikipedia. How do you even write that and go 'that's a normal sentence.' )

[hjemne]

The French are so funny because instead of having art as a general category meaning a creation with beauty, they listened to Hegel about there only being 6 distinct categories of art, but then as the world develops people kept on going 'well THIS is artistic, but it's distinct from those other kinds of creative categories' and then adding new categories. Like, my guys, there is beauty to be found in all of mankind's creations. Give up on the number system. If you can get your head around the holy trinity being one god in three forms, you can also get your head around there just being ART despite its many forms. But they won't change because their govt and society are conservative and white supremacist and adding increasingly bizarre numbers of art forms to a Eurocentric and classical model is preferable to any form of fluidity and change in the culture

[cheezekennith]

Guys I did something cringe and not really funny tbh...

So I basically ruined the touhou 11 cast so...

And this is the last post and I am not posting touhou anymore

[stuartarthurblair]

Vive Le Tour!

[biologist4ever]

[reality-detective]

Right before the opening ceremony of the Olympics in France. Are the Olympics a child trafficking hotspot like the Superbowl? What's really going on? 🤔

[yuji-yamada]

Chasing Group

36 x 51 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2024

[purpletrashcans]

This is a rant, an oddly specific, very unnecessary Radio Silence rant

Okay so we all remember that one tumblr post in Radio Silence in which a user talked about how privileged and rude Aled was for criticizing the education system and not wanting to go to university

This post - and I know it's not real, I know the person who wrote it doesn't exist - makes me so mad every. Single. Time.

Like have you ever thought about the fact that some people are simply not made for university, some people are just fucking miserable when they're - yk - stuck in university, i mean having the privilege of being able to choose if you want to go to university also means having the privilege of being able to not go

Also just because you have the privilege of being able to go to university doesn't mean you can't criticize a system that is so obviously shit, like i'm sorry, but even as someone who actually kinda enjoys university i 100% think that we not only have the right, but also responsibility to criticize when we see deficiencies or problems in the education system

And what kind of weird whataboutism is this "You don’t want to go to university, because you know it would make you miserable and think that the education system is deeply flawed? Well what about people that can't go to university at all, you privileged prick? How dare you not want to be miserable for at least the next 3 years of your life!!!!" Like i'm sorry but that’s so idiotic i can't even

Just because you CAN go to university doesn't mean you have to, the privilege is that you have the choice, that it's your decision

[historyguide]

New video about the symbolism in paintings of Vincent van Gogh.