The burning of new schoolhouses, proudly built by the French as part of their "cultural offensive" against the F.L.N., the terrorising of "loyal" schoolteachers — these were seldom random acts of savagery. Gloomily Soustelle records a conversation during his tenure of office between an F.L.N. leader and a teacher: "We shall not cease, even after we have thrown all the French into the sea. We shall destroy all the schools because they represent the French culture, which we want nothing of."

XREF: Connects to colonial resistance scholarship and the use of education as a tool of cultural assimilation — parallel to Algerian decolonization historiography.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1234