Last Friday I bought (and on Sunday finished reading it ... ouch!) the last book of Daniel Pennac, called in English "Mal school " I bought it because it was Pennac, not because they speak of schools (the same time I bought three the most diverse character ... to compensate ... haha)
Chagrin d'ecole not know if it exactly "evil school ." Chagrin is more like "discomfort" or "dissatisfaction" or "dislike"
A book dedicated to the students that the school considered a failure: the bad boys, who do not understand anything, the repeating of the year, who are sitting in class but never "are" there. Daniel Pennac
speaks in first person, mixing his exquisite command of grammar (francesa!) with family anecdotes totally believable or book microcapítulos tiny (less than simplex) which allows you to add one clarification.
Mr. Pennac was a bad student, a blockhead, a chump (translated into English as their francesísimo " cancre ") and tells her pain and suffering of the poor student in immaculate gear only a planned system for success.
In his book he speaks of his past " cancre " family of desperation by ineptitude, the four teachers who "saved his life " (how inspiring these four guys!) Of love threw him to the possibility of trust and success of your concern then, as teacher, of these students' special "," tough, " socks." Talk
faith eclectic unconventional methods, the students who recognize him on the street, in bars, airports, bookstores ... It is invigorating to read his metamorphosis.
Talk, however, confessed to cynicism or sadness, of the School Republic. This public, free, academically rich and democratization that France stood as a banner in May 1968.
regard, Pennac says
"May 68 was an anti-consumerist movement, but when its effects were fading and the French company adopted more liberal forms, then burst mass consumption also in school. Children and parents became clients and consumers. And the school has nothing to sell. Imparts knowledge, transmitting knowledge, something that is necessary but rarely desired. Today many kids seem to showcase the service of various brands. Those who have freedom of spirit to this clientelization of education are those who know better resist illusions consumption.
The book devotes an entire chapter to talk about marketing speech transvestite new languages \u200b\u200b pushes, permeates, causes and plays dirty to colonize without objection the-lean-school times. " The school must be open to advertising, as this will end up being a kind of information, instruction material " Pennac heard that phrase in a radio program that calls for the removal of children from the "ghetto school ( what kind, how modern, how lucky they are marketers to tell teachers that we are outcasts of the system ...)
And it is not the lament of an old professor borincano ranting about how bad guys talk, product sms typing in code, or because they have lost the good manners of the old days ... Pennac would say is right on the sidewalk opposite of that model. Well, me too. No teenagers scare me lazy to read and right in the game, but I do not think that is the prototype of a new intelligence.
are, however, victims of chagrin d'ecole. Resigned or fighters, are the kids that boldly yawn or look at you with eyes that leave no loophole for doubt: no look at you, you will not hear, do not understand a damn what you're talking about, "I leave the face and they leave. " Bored, empty, suffering from the evil school, but their teachers also felt.
The trouble is that the teachers have forgotten
have forgotten that one day they too knew .
did not know how recognizes an indirect object, did not know in which year was Kepler did not know what function had the estrogen (no, science profs, seriously, there was a time not to know!) and so on ... ad infinitum.
The poor student, or the one on the moon, which does not progress, or who overtly or silently express our specialty material or give a damn because they have nothing to contribute to your life .... that should be our ideal student. This is also understood
Daniel Pennac, who complain that teachers have lost the sense of ignorance.
reminded me a brilliant tip of Seymour Papert, who advised that taught to use the computer to another squatting beside . At its height, looking at the screen together. Do not take the keyboard for it, do not remove the mouse and do it: just down from your height (in my case, the order is almost funny) and the pair Get situated. And as you do, look at the problem how had looked when know yet.
In short, as I read the transformation of "chump " Daniel Pennachioni on teacher and writer Daniel Pennac, I began to appear in rows of fresh memories some teachers and teachers who serve as examples for both ends of the pendulum . I was lucky: I remembered before the good ones from bad ones.
also the memory of colleagues and classmates stigmatized as "bad students." I wonder what will become of them today (mmm. .. I must dive into Facebook ... haha)
A precious taste this book. Do not give it 5 stars because it would be an insult to the poor student who wrote it. I give it 4, but the top four, the four you want, mark the four northern him wherever he is.
And some links:
Here, an interview Daniel Pennac about this book.
Rimbaud's letter to his teacher Izambard, soon become his literary mentor.
Another interview, Jacques Ranciere, who rescued the Marxist philosopher Jacotot figure in his book "The Ignorant Schoolmaster"
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