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primary schools for the language & for liberty; they will suffice to make the language known in the departments where there remain too many vestiges of this patois, of this gabble, maintained by habit & disseminated by negligent education or lack thereof. The legislator should view things from above, & should not just recognize the clearly pronounced nuances, the enormous differences; he only owes language instructors to regions accustomed to a single idiom, isolated & separated from the great family. These instructors will not belong to any group of worship: there will be no teaching of priesthood in public education; good patriots, enlightened men, these are the necessary qualities needed to be an educator. Local organizations will choose their candidates: they will come from amongst themselves, these instructors must be from those towns. It shall be by the people’s representatives sent to establish the revolutionary government, that these instructors will be chosen. Their salary will be paid for by the Public Treasury. The Republic has an obligation to provide an elementary education to all citizens; their salary will not arouse greed; it will satisfy the needs of a man living in the countryside, established at fifteen hundred francs each year. Their diligence, recorded by the constituent authorities, will be the Republic’s guarantee for the payment of these instructors who will be fulfilling a mission more important than it seems at first glance. They will educate men about liberty, connect citizens to their country, & ensure the execution of laws by making them known. The Comité’s proposition may seem frivolous in the eyes of ordinary men, but I am addressing the legislators of the people, those charged with