The director of the normal school of Loiret, Mr. Naudy, having identified the capacities of the young Charles Péguy, made him enter in sixth, by specifying:
“It is necessary that it makes Latin
.
To the narrator of The
English Teacher
, he was not told to take Mr. Wilder's lessons
.
The final year of a high school in the 1970s naturally led to taking English classes.
Nevertheless, his existence will be changed as much as that of Péguy.
Imagine this Patrick Wilder - one would almost say an aptonym, so much his name is for a class an exhilarating promise of freedom: blond beard, ephelides, an air of English romantic, and in the mouth a quote taken from a poet Victorian - or Cat Stevens.
A conquered class
Wilder or the master is there.
It arrives from the United States, which gives it an incomparable charm and appeal.
Oxford would have been more forbidding.
With him, a course is what Barthes says it should be: mixing knowledge and flavor.
Because his pedagogy is original, new, audacious.
Doesn't he say that the most...
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