The little French learning was also dangerous, in that it aroused a powerful appetite for more; and it threatened (because of economic problems) to create a class of “literate unemployed”. In words that could have applied to more than just education, an old Kabyle complained sadly to Germaine Tillion: “You’ve led us to the middle of the ford, and there you’ve left us.…”

XREF: Connects to broader critiques of colonial education systems creating dependency and aspiration without opportunity, a pattern seen across postcolonial contexts.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 181