Just now the workshop is incomplete, poorly fitted out, poorly directed and still rudimentary; but it is to be enlarged and completed and made to turn out more and better work.

For the time being, it produces only what is needed to fill the annual vacancies in the lycees and in the colleges.

Nevertheless, the first decree states that it is "intended to receive as many as three hundred youths."[6148] The production of this number will fill all vacancies, however great they may be, and fill them with products of superior and authentic quality.

These human products thus manufactured by the State in its own shop, these school instruments which the State stamps with its own mark, the State naturally prefers.

It imposes them on its various branches; it puts them by order into its lycees and colleges; at last, it accepts no others; not only does it confer on itself the monopoly of teaching, but again the preparation of the masters who teach.