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Educating for democracy

"In education our duty is to... help people cultivate a desire to seek out truth and separate it from lies. This needs open debate, not closure." Interview for the World Forum for Democracy 2016.

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Marine Le Pen speaking 'in the name of the people' in southern France, September 18, 2016. Claude Paris/Press Association. All rights reserved.

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