In this regard its family circle also played a role

"The man of the pot." This is good an expression Jean-Michel Blanquer has frankly fed up to see back in his name in the media. Not that the former Rector of recently promoted Créteil Director General of education regrets having conducted this experiment aimed at combating absenteeism in three professional schools of the Academy - the absenteeism as according to him "a major challenge of society" that just blur "lots of tartufferie". But simply because this famous pool, so often caricatured, was only an initiative among many others, which some have occupied it much more. Boarding the first "School of excellence" created last year in Sourdun (Seine-et-Marne) in just six months, true "campus school" of a new type that will be duplicated at the national level in the great loan. Thus also the "Binder online" and "case of the parents", two other balloons test although indicative of his double tropism for the concept of "co-éducation" and the digital. Or even the schools in 7,000 words dictionary project developed by students in 700 classes: a presentation of the work under the dome will come soon crowned this lexical work. A work that considers all the more fruitful that mastery of the French in his eyes is the cornerstone of a successful education. It will be understood: Jean-Michel Blanquer lack of ideas or beliefs.

Expansionary and resourceful

Satisfied but not Republican less pragmatic, this doctor in law from the University of Paris-II, who completed her training with a master of philosophy, a master of political science and a year at Harvard, has always been to heart, as Rector, to adapt this "universal" public service that is Education in the realities on the ground. In 2004, François Fillon, then responsible for this portfolio in the Raffarin Government, appointed him rector of Guyana. "You are the only President to have a function canoe", he said as a joke to "sell" position. Good knowledge of the South American continent, the former cooperating in Bogota, who later taught public law for six years at the Institute of higher studies of Latin America, accepts without hesitation. Arrived on the spot, he found that children living along the Maroni River are dropouts and to remedy the problem, creates the first bi-national schools in the world in association with the authorities of neighboring Suriname.

Between these two positions of President, Jean-Michel Blanquer made a passage to the Office of Gilles de Robien, as Deputy Director: the former Mayor of Amiens had identified this expansionary in a passage in Guyana, and resourceful officer that he had come to attend a launch of Ariane as Minister of research. This alternation between functions of land and stays in headquarters has, by his own admission, much helped to keep him locked up in a "soilless" thought, far from the realities of daily life. In this regard, its family circle also played a role. His mother was a Professor of English. And her three children, eleven, fourteen and seventeen years old, were in high school, College and primary until last year respectively. "A good thermometer!", says with a chuckle.