فشل الاستعمار في نشر التعليم التبشيري في الجزائر (1867-1904)‎

Abstract EN

France was very excited to evangelize a nation that was converted to islam since the first Hijri century, a nation that made islam spread in too many other nations that flourished after been converted to islam.

Moreover, the french men sacrificed their lives to protect Christianity in the Islamic Algerian land.

Education for France was the main means to make Christianity dominate it all.

So, missionaries built primary and Vocational schools to attract kids, teenagers, men and women.

They've established the educational associations in all over the country, and officially started the missionary education in 1867, when great famines hit Algeria.

The Christianizational wave of Cardinal Lavigeri claimed that the weather then was suitable for the realization of his Westernization project.

He also promised to make Algeria a base to evangelize Africa, been helped by Generals, frensh politicians and his high relations with Vatican.

So, schools were the best weapon to apply such a systematic plan; ie, at schools, malicious ideas can be easily spread, especially because kids' minds can't really diffrentiate between the right and the wrong.

So, they prepared programs that focused on raising the cross, the language of colonialism and on the other hand, making both Islam and the nation's language fall down.

The missionary school's goal was not to educate Algerians, its main goal was to ruin the foundations of the nation; religion, language etc.

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That kind of education was over by 1904's resolution, which declared the end of the education led by the Clergy in both Algeria and France