401. Furthermore, Article 8 of this same law which relates to the educational
function of the school specifies the finality of education as follows:
- «To develop the civic sense of the youth; to educate them on the values
of citizenship; affirm in them the awareness of the indivisible nature of freedom
and responsibility; to prepare them for participation in the consolidation of the
meeting of a solid society based on justice, equity, the equality of citizens in terms
of rights and responsibilities;
- To develop the personality of the individual in all its dimensions: moral,
emotional, mental and physical; refine his talents and faculties and guarantee him
the right to build his personality in a manner which will sharpen his sense of
Judgement and his will, so as to develop in him perspicacity of judgement, self
confidence, the sense of initiative and creativity.
- To develop in the youth an appreciation for effort and love for work,
considered a moral value and a decisive factor in the development of self and in
the building of a personality; and arouse in them an aspiration for excellence.
- To educate the pupil on the respect for common values and on the rules
of communal living ».
402. Pertaining to the Child Protection Code, it is based on general principles
which take inspiration from human rights ideals and are aimed at, among other
things, « raising the child to be proud of his national identity, faithfulness and
loyalty to Tunisia, land, history and knowledge, and the feeling of civilizational
belonging, this, at the national level, Maghrebi, Arabic and Islamic while imbuing
himself with the culture of human Brotherhood and openness to others, in
conformity with the requirements of educational and scientific teachings ».
B) World Solidarity
403. For Tunisia, economic globalization should, moreover, be accompanied by a
globalization of solidarity, in order to create a dynamism of partnership and codevelopment at the planetary level, instead of the traditional aid which has
reached its limits, capable of closing the unfair gap separating the rich countries
from the less endowed ones, by integrating the citizens of all the regions of the
world in a vast project of shared progress.
404. The economic and social divide which separates the populations of the
North from those of the South generate a multifaceted unpleasant living which
can well become the breeding ground for terrorist acts and fear used by the
preachers of hatred of the various types of fundamentalism. It is for this reason
that globalization with a human face calls for measures marked with justice and a
fine tuning of the appropriate development strategies to promote a climate in
which it will be possible to build stable relationships between nations, establish
constructive dialogue and design a viable mode of globalization.
405. The false universality of the world market unleashes communitarian
particularisms
and
toughens
devastating
xenophobia:
the
market
cosmopolitanism of capital and the aggressive identity-related impulses give each
other mutual support. Now, for Tunisia, it is not a question of choosing between
these two forms of inhumanity, but of putting forward a credible human
universality which is constructive and equitable against the one and the other.
The World Solidarity Fund, proposed by Tunisia in 1999 and adopted by the
UN, constitutes, in this context, a realistic alternative to the loftiness of the
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