Old Quebec education prevails

In 1960, upon the narrow Lesage victory over the reeling Unionists and "Quebec 1.0" as I call it, over 90% of Francophones did not attend university. Who did? Wealthy French-Canadians attended the colleges classiques, Church-run male-only liberal arts colleges, then U de M. Anglos attended McGill or SGWU (Concordia), still under numerus clausus. Daniel Johnson created the CEGEP system (junior college 2 yrs, including yours truly) and the old CCs became top-tier private schools. WI this never happened, thereby preventing the mass education of Francophone Quebecers? How long before changes take place? Either Liberals don't elect Lesage leader or Unionists flip 400 votes and win in '60. Where do things go from there?
 
So where did Francophone women go? (Or non-wealthy Francophone men?)
Also, what's numerus clausus?

Speaking as an American interested in Quebec but who's not up on the history before the late 60s. I had no idea education was so restricted.
 
Francophone women went to secretarial school, became nuns, or only HS as did 85% of their men. Numerus clausus is basically a racist version of AA, where quotas are imposed on certain ethnic groups, if not outright bans. At McGill this pertained mostly to Jews. Wealthy Francophones could only become doctors or lawyers. Rarely in business with few exceptions (such as Bourassa's in-laws, the Simards). Why? Usury. Duplessis and his Liberal predecessors both shared the same ideology. Conservative corporatism along the lines of Ferdinand Marcos' NS.
 

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My father was schooled at a college classique. Out of the 18 children in his family, he was one of two who had the privilege, and then again, only because his father made huge sacrifices and mortgaged his farm.

Lets just say that Id be very, very unhappy to have grown up in the backwards, theocratic society he was raised in. Everything I am proud of in my homeland is the exact opposite of what it was back then. The Quebec of 1970 was the exact opposite of the Quebec of 1950, and as far as I'm concerned, you have to go back to the French Revolution to find a state that has gone across such incredibly positive reforms in so little time as we did during the révolution tranquille.
 
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