The agrégation is a French civil service examination, which is part of the higher education system in France. It is highly competitive: only the very best students in France take it, and only a portion of those who take it are able to pass. The agrégation qualifies people to teach at the lycée level––the final and most competitive stage of French secondary education.
Agrégation Quotes in Black Skin, White Masks
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When an Antillean with a degree in philosophy says he is not sitting for the agrégation because of his color, my response is that philosophy never saved anybody. When another desperately tries to prove to me that the black man is as intelligent as any white man, my response is that neither did intelligence save anybody, for if equality among men is proclaimed in the name of intelligence and philosophy, it is also true that these concepts have been used to justify the extermination of man.
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Chapter 1: The Black Man and Language
...is true, it shouldn’t really be surprising considering Césaire is “a Martinican with a university agrégation.”
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