'42' is a school where students can learn to think by teaching each other without tuition fees or teachers.
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42 , a computer school founded in Paris by entrepreneur Xavier Niel , who was disappointed with the French education system, invested approximately $90 million (approximately 8.8 billion yen). It is a hugely popular vocational school with approximately 60,000 applicants for 800 available places. The reason for its popularity seems to be its unique teaching system, in which students are given the initiative without a teacher and help each other solve problems.
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While the employment rate for young people in France shows no signs of increasing, the IT industry is suffering from a shortage of talent. 42 founder Niel explains his goal in founding 42: 'Children born into working-class families cannot escape the working class. Children born into elite families are headed straight for the elite. The French education system is collapsing, and every year 200,000 children enter society without completing compulsory education. I want to lend a helping hand to these children and give them a new chance.'
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The only requirement for admission to 42 is that you must be between 18 and 30 years old, and there is no application fee or educational background requirement. An exam is held to select 800 students from approximately 60,000 applicants, but the exam content does not test knowledge, but rather focuses on 'how you think,' and the exam period is quite long, at four months. One of 42's educational goals is to unearth hidden talents among children who have fallen off the rails of compulsory education. For this reason, it seems necessary to carefully select students over a long period of time.
One of the reasons why 42 is so popular is that there are no teachers in the school's unique teaching system. Students learn by working together to solve problems. Nicolas Sadirac, principal of 42, explains why he chose a different teaching method from other schools: 'We don't want to tell students anything. We want them to find ways to solve problems on their own, because we have no idea what problems they might encounter in the future. To develop creative people, we need to go outside the bounds of the traditional education system.'
By Saad Faruque
Omar Marzougi, a 27-year-old man currently taking the 42 entrance exam, is the child of immigrants whose parents emigrated from Tunisia. He says that while many immigrants with African roots face discrimination in France, the only requirement for the 42 entrance exam is age, and there is no discrimination based on educational background or social status, so he decided to apply because he wanted to receive an equal education.
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