Today's schools, under the rule of the educational sciences, wander at random. Like a headless hen, it rushes along according to fashions and intellectual currents. To save it, we urgently need to answer the question of the purpose of education.

When we present our beliefs as knowledge, we quickly find ourselves denying the facts. By abandoning refutability in favor of an interpretive approach, we border on the absurd, as in the case of Planned Parenthood's emphasis on pregnant men.

Last May, in a videoconference speech on the theme of financing development in poor countries, our current President Simonetta Sommaruga defended her vision of a global society: less unequal, more sustainable and better able to meet the challenges of societal change, including the current pandemic and climate change. But if this banal speech struck me, it's because she also wanted tomorrow's world to be... fairer! By this, the Socialist Federal Councillor didn't really mean justice, but social justice. So what is this notion that we come across so often? Does it have anything to do with traditional justice?

Olivier Rey is a mathematician and philosopher.