Word: egalit
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...more pertinent to the French: if it is broken, why not go ahead and try? The French system of higher education is broken to the core. At the level of higher education at least, it seems to me high time for the old French revolutionary triumvirate of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité to open its doors to a fourth sibling: Modernité. Money may not buy us love, or even happiness, but it can go a long way toward buying things for which we have, as yet, no other currency. A culture that takes pride in its intellectual achievements...
...like the country's 99 other local administrative units. Yet you don't have to spend long in the shadow of Réunion's active volcano to realize that the island is a long way from Lyons. Despite the French Republic's much-vaunted ideals of liberté, egalité, fraternité, Réunion is a place where First World and Third World meet...