- During 59 years, Mohammed V School, in Rabat, was a place for knowledge, recognition and homeland love.

- To celebrate this teaching institution is to celebrate its founder and director Othman Jouriou,

- one of those who signed the Declaration of Independence, and a member of the National Movement.

- The school played major roles and was one of the first private schools.

- This institution is considered as a pioneering one in the country, thanks to the name it bears and which top of gates bears the inscription:

- Mohammed V, this great king who used to come to visit.

- He used to enter some classrooms

- and conference rooms, at the time when this school had just opened.

- The celebration and the tribute that was paid to this school evoke the historical context

- that was paid by former generations during the War of Independence and the cause for national struggle,

- embodied in the nice examples and images of fusion between the throne and the people.

- I passed my exam in primary school in 1949, here at Mohammed V School.

- That’s the school that educated many generations in order to fight colonization.

- Students used to learn Arabic as our families wanted us to learn our language in order to fight colonization.

- Mohammed V School is one of the first schools in Morocco

- and the first arabized school. It was founded to fight colonization. Its director Si Othman Jouryou

- is one of the people who signed the Declararion of Independence.

- This great school teaches us proper habits and I thank God as I have the honor to study in this institution.

- Mohammed V School that trained and educated several generations of students is a strong symbol,

- as it hosts the members of national units and their secret meetings during the Protectorate.

- As my father says, Hadj Othmane Jouriou, the students of Mohammed V School,

- whom he was proud of, carried books and feathers during day time, and at night time, they carried swords and pistols.

- Today’s generation, students and executives, celebrate the school and its founder.

- What can be better than singing those national songs that were written and composed by Othmane Jouriou,

- that sings values and proper habits, the message being citizenship and the love of homeland.

- Music