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Explanation of the law’s motives.
A three-year course will suffice for this type of education, & guides this child of the Republic to his eighteenth year. Then if the country has enemies it must fight, he will be honored to go in its defense; for in the future the Republic wishes to entrust only its own children with the task of defending it. This act of devotion having been completed, he returns to his household, there decides on a virtuous, active, & hard-working companion, & he becomes himself the founder of a new family, with which the Republic enriches itself.
 
Such is the progress of a republican & truly public education; I know of no other one. This is the end that education must accomplish, & the result that must complete it.  
I set the age of twelve years old as the beginning of trade apprenticeships because this period, to me, seemed to be the most appropriate & prevent any inconvenience.  
For the most part, this same plan is applicable to girls. Indeed, any girl who has reached the age of fifteen, needs to have learned & know a trade suitable to her sex. In possession of this precious resource, she can confidently aspire to the role of mother, for which nature has destined her. However, if she believes it more useful to delay this to a later age, she can either continue with the carrying out of her profession, or learn from a virtuous mother, the efficient use of time by sharing with her domestic duties & tasks.
Before the age of twelve, the child may possibly not have the sufficient strength to carry out work; in fact, the time preceding this age could be dedicated to accumulating the education appropriate for this age group in primary schools. Later on, one risks reaching the perfection of a chosen art too late, or finds oneself caught by surprised during a time when the country requires of oneself other services.  
Let us not believe that under a republican, democratic, & popular regime, the plague of domesticity will be able to continue to afflict the social corps as much as it has up until this point. Every homemaker must learn to do without outside help, & should not abandon tasks that have been entrusted to her in the hands of those who work for money. Domesticity is not a profession; it should only be considered as a period of apprenticeship, a type of practical education, when the youth can receive useful lessons & examples. This apprenticeship should
In rural areas, the child having reaching their twelfth year, joins a group that works with certain crops, carries on the work required, & remains immutably attached to it.  
In urban areas, the child who, at the same age, is fixed on a trade, should by the age of fifteen possess two advantages: physical strength, & the practice of a useful profession. Enriched by this sole inheritance, he may travel, with the security that freedom from need bestows, to the different territories of the Republic, improving in the exercise of his art through the reconciliation of experience, adding to his acquired knowledge, & forging through his own active industry the bases of a long-lasting happiness.

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A three-year course will suffice for this type of education, & guides this child of the Republic to his eighteenth year. Then if the country has enemies it must fight, he will be honored to go in its defense; for in the future the Republic wishes to entrust only its own children with the task of defending it. This act of devotion having been completed, he returns to his household, there decides on a virtuous, active, & hard-working companion, & he becomes himself the founder of a new family, with which the Republic enriches itself. Such is the progress of a republican & truly public education; I know of no other one. This is the end that education must accomplish, & the result that must complete it. For the most part, this same plan is applicable to girls. Indeed, any girl who has reached the age of fifteen, needs to have learned & know a trade suitable to her sex. In possession of this precious resource, she can confidently aspire to the role of mother, for which nature has destined her. However, if she believes it more useful to delay this to a later age, she can either continue with the carrying out of her profession, or learn from a virtuous mother, the efficient use of time by sharing with her domestic duties & tasks. Let us not believe that under a republican, democratic, & popular regime, the plague of domesticity will be able to continue to afflict the social corps as much as it has up until this point. Every homemaker must learn to do without outside help, & should not abandon tasks that have been entrusted to her in the hands of those who work for money. Domesticity is not a profession; it should only be considered as a period of apprenticeship, a type of practical education, when the youth can receive useful lessons & examples. This apprenticeship should

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