The new programs and syllabi for civic and moral education in primary school have already been published by the Conseil Supérieur des Programmes (CSP) (National advisory board on school syllabi). This article will focus on the significance taken by the ambition in itself and beyond its contents of a civic and moral education, take a look at the criticism regarding its principles that the project has elicited, and confront these critiques with the overall directions opted for by the present proposal for a civic and moral education.