The university and society in Algeria, the limits of knowledge and society

Abstract

“The education system reflects the social order of a society and at the same time constitutes the basic means by which that order is sustained” (Michel CROZIER).
Algeria's educational system today is no exception to this thesis, and so the university today is the image of Algerian society today, both of which present themselves as the product of a stormy and turbulent history for decades, i.e. since the colonial event (1830), society and the educational system have not stopped changing and transforming, and the Algerian university today is the product of these transformations, which witnessed at least four historical moments according to Professor Djamel GUERID, the first moment is the moment of establishment that was very slow with the establishment of the first medical school in 1832, and ended with the establishment in 1909 of four higher schools (medicine, literature, law and science) in one university, and this is the. This university at this moment had a dual function, one practical and the other ideological.