Original Text:
Ce qui nous prouve que, dès le collège, les hommes ne cherchent qu'à se passer pardessus les épaules les uns des autres.

Translation:
Which proves again that already since high school man supports himself on the shoulders of his kin in order to advance in life.

(note: a more direct translation: In which we see that, even as schoolboys, men learn to gain advancement by "leap-frogging" over the backs of others.)