| When
24 years old, (in 1952), I already cumulated five
years of teaching, in five
colleges, totally different (from terrific luxury for "Princes of
France",
to an African college refusing "Little Whites"), in four
different countries, on three
continents (one of them including Algeria and Togoland), one year
of military time, flirtation with four
universities, (in the Librairies!), two
years of true philosophy, (with a private prof, now in the
Philosophers'Book).
I recall that my "schooling" included to do three things at a
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I
already
exercised the direct attack of
problems: by
Easter 1950, I went to Geneva to meet Dottrens, inventor of the "
global
reading". I said: "Completely inaplicable to the "fascist"
French!
But
I applied this global reading, in Algeria, when the FIS painted all
plates
in the streets..
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Did I teach
"philosophy"? just one hour, on Shakespeare:
" Very easy: Bill has no philosophy; he
just describes people. Now Hamlet, Falstaff, King Lear and Lady
McThatcher,
(blaguards do have a philosophy!). Well, Shakespeare's a
"non-philosopher
producing philosophers".
Today I should say:
France? a
country without any philosophy
producing "philosophers" by conveyor.
do you see?
Lachelier -> Lagneau -> Alain -> Twiggy Weil ->
shitotosophes -> theosophers.
But I dreamt of a course with a Twiggy Weil, (after
having solved
my problems). Unjustified enthusiasm versus uncertified
experience.
Conclusion: students
understand that you don't learn philosophy, that no one detains
the
truth. At the exam, all would get the average.
I could not
realize my program, because of extended
administrative stupidity , (not only in Europe!) Once, I visited the
Library
of the Computing Center of Algiers. The administrative director popped.
By hasard?
Would you give your course to the
pupils of the last year"?
Of course, I have a local contract, but
on the Monday morning, for the preparation".
We called
upon the BigMaster, a "politician":
"We have already a course! The
French Government offers us SCOM, free...
In my course, I destroy this SCUM, nowaday buried.
Anyway, I saved my
weekends. It is difficult to help youngsters if you don't belong to the
good Church... I was useful to all visiting-teachers offered by the
French State to the. I counseled them to spend their dinars
offered by the Algerian State.
One
Monday morning,
Boumédienne popped up: "Your book, you
write it and we publish it."
That brother of mine could enter any place. We reached the office of
the
Director of the Algerian Editions. Everything rapidly OK.
"Royalties"?
you
hand them to youngsters of El-Asnam",
(the
earthquake had just occured).
Two months later, I return with
my manuscript. I'm directed to a room under the roof. Exchange of
politeness.
"We will publish the book". We part for ever. It is difficult to help
youngsters
in socialist country. Boumédienne, (his true name), wanted
to be a school-teacher.
He could be a good one. He was advised not to insist. He became a hero
of
the Algerian Liberation. Without hate. Me? I had just said that Algeria
had the maximum of possibilities to link enterprises and universities.
Twenty years ago.
To organize
workshops, I used a small word "after"?
This recipe could improve any teaching. Just go to workshops and
see "what
happens after teaching". Youngsters
have understood since they require "professors with
experience of the enterprise", (pretty much
what Kant recommended).
I am well placed to be elected.
In a big Algerian "SONA", a young
popped in my
bureau: "You are a specialist of systems!
Come to explain them".
He had followed my
course of the CERI. My present
SONA had possessed a "system department", for years. Nobody knew it. It
was so big! 80.000 employees and one hundred factories...
How do you create a "system
department"?
one day in the Committee of Direction, anybody will say: " At
Ford,
they entrust this kind problem to their system department". Another
knows: "In
CERI, they give a course on systems,
with SCOM freely offered by the French State". The prof, a
lady,
indicates her publications, "Has taught the theory
of systems in the CERI..." I can tell her
the "after", the aftermath...
I went to the "system department"
and asked
the little system-chief to explain me his system of systems; he
started:
"Impetrating,
ratafia, exultans, teach and get rich..." I said: "I
must consult my director". I asked the
latter to refuse. Among the
nice boys produced of the "SCOM freely offered
by the French State", I
did not any with
whom I would cross the Sahara.
In the
meantime,
I thought to dedicate time to disabled youngsters, in souvenir of the
young baroness who adopted some. I saw this periode as an exchange of
information:
" What need of revenge can
such a handicap
trigger? does it produce this Newton-Einstein brains for whom I look?
(By
this time nobody knew the Hawkins case) .
First failure: my visit, (1976),
to *ANVAR,
the patent office: wasn't it stupid to speak of intellectual property!
Second failure: others knew the good use of
handicapped youngsters in data processing. I was questioned by a guy
that
received subsidies to transform them in line-pissers: Did
you keep any contacts with this firm? with that one?" I would
be contract-hunter, my dream! (I leave this job to ex-ministers!)
Last attempt: AFPA offered me to teach their
programs, PASCAL and that SCUM. Sure, they are protected, our disabled
kids!
When
Mitterand was élected, I thought
that a "guy"
known on three continents for discovering the MIS formula
could say "and after?". Some Savary
announced: "No more problem
since May the 8th", (no breakdowns for socialist
trams). T'is not easy to help.
I was 50 years old, I made the
incredible
balance of my experiences. I would not be a Boudhist but I was
going
to overpass Wittgenstein, (the only competitor that I fear in this
century,
I robbed him the idea of "outillectuals"),
while benefitting of the error
of Kant, (he blocked for reflection the his most active period, from 25
to 50 years). Between 50 and 75 years, I would prepare this synthesis
impossible
to Little Hegel, the cosmosophy for the Next Millennium. It is normal
to put a monastic period in a CV. It is a preparation, of course.
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G
Lelarge, "Philo-Manager",
Engineer
data
processing,
(National Computing Center, 1970-1973),
expert
in the
International Labour Office,
(1971
till retirement) following a data-processing contribution, (1965),
considered
to be exceptional by specialists in
Management.
Intervention as a consultant in 175 companies, (50 to 80.000
employees),
Philips, , SONATRACH, Ministries of Algeria, Venezuela, Mines of Zaire,
etc... |
NOTA
B:
A manner of using
teaching? with some disadvantage. The first year, you get
lower
classes.
Now, while young people waste their
time, what a knowledge of the world, what an experience so useful
to become a true philosopher, (when 60 years old!).
Example. During my
service,
when 20 years old, in the University of Beirut, I measured the
danger of the academic life. I had my
standards
of comparison, level Clémenceau and Citroen...
Only one famous in the group, Poidebard,
which had launched the search of ancient sites by aerial
photography.
My chance
in a university? quite thin. But a remark helped me later: one
third
of most courses, obsolete; another third, useless; and nobody to point
you the last third, useful but to be updated in the next
ten
years.
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This
framework
was very useful for me for an impossible work: attracted by the
problem
of "integrated management", I realized that the only
way was to learn all the functions of Fayol, (I pushed the vice until
the
only proof, to manage them). |
With results still legendary, by my facility " to communicate ".
Example? When I was entered in a branch search of the SONATRACH,
(in
fact my CV had decided them to engage me before any selection of the 80
candidates).
As
of the first management meeting, I stopped one discuss-dispute between
the Auditor and the Maintenance Manager, (Polytechnique teacher
of
Algiers), while saying, "Under different
words, you say the same
thing. If one wins, the company will lose..." I was a computer
engineer
that day but I had occupied their offices...
I multiplied
these demonstrations of superiority of the versatility... But this
time,
I was punished. Each week, the secretary recalled me not to
forget
the meeting...
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