مثّل التعليم العمومي بمختلف مراحله أحد ركائز بناء الدولة الحديثة في تونس خاصة بعد الاستقلال إلى حدود فترة التسعينات.

Public education was one of the main pillars of modern state-building in Tunisia. From independence (1956) until the 1990s, the public education system was credited with producing a skilled labor force and social mobility for large swaths of the population.