The spirit of education

It is indeed the right of those who wish to benefit from this book and to gain from it to extract the opinions that touch on the common flaws between Eastern education and French education without corrupting or spoiling the book… And I have done nothing but this, and I hope that you will read this book so that you arrive at two valuable conclusions: the first is the awareness of these many dangerous flaws that spoil education in Egypt in particular and in the East in general; the second is knowledge of the basic principles adopted by modern reformers to change educational systems, despite their differences in topics and stages. The book examines French education, but it studies education as an education, as a means to shape the individual's soul and to establish the higher ideals of nations and peoples.