The former school, housed in a building designed at the end of the 19th century, is a vestige of the old village of Saint Jacques de la Lande, which was radically transformed during the 2nd World War.
The school operated for several decades in the post-war period, before being purchased by the Grande Loge de France in 1999.
This building complex is a place where children in the past, and now men and women, have experienced a journey that has many points in common.
Same place, different names. But always a place of transmission. From the school of knowledge to the temple of knowledge, there is this common denominator, a kind of progression from the acquisition of the basics of knowledge to a deeper, more integrated quest for understanding our outer and inner world.
The School of Knowledge is a learning phase in which we accumulate information, facts and fundamental knowledge. This stage focuses on basic skills such as reading, writing and mathematics. The students we were acquired essential facts and information that served as a foundation for more complex studies. In this way, the children of Saint Jacques de la lande were provided with a supportive environment for their transition to secondary school and their evolution into the adult world.
The Temple of Knowledge is characterized by personal research and collective sharing time, where individuals make connections between different fields specific to the history and development of our civilization from antiquity to the present day. In the Temple of Knowledge, the emphasis is not only on the pursuit of individual knowledge, a form of quest, but also on its transmission.