[3] He then attended the Ecole Normale Superieure and passed the agrégation in 1986, a French civil service exam for positions in public education.

[citation needed] The topic of his dissertation (written in French) was The problem of human diversity: survey on the characterization of the people and the constitution of geographies of spirit from Leibniz to Hegel (1995).

Shortly after this, he moved to Moldova for a period and credits living and working in the USSR with developing many of his attitudes and pedagogical methods.

[3] At this time, he also developed an interest in the relationship between political and linguistic communities, which he would go on to research in greater detail.

[8] Marc Crépon was the co-founder (along with Bernard Stiegler) of the association Ars Industrialis.