Daniel Pennac Quotes
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I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.
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The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.
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Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.
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Schools everywhere have always confined themselves to making students learn techniques and write essays, while proscribing treading for pleasure. It seems to be established in perpetuity, in every part of the world, that enjoyment has no part to play in the curriculum, and that knowledge can only be the fruit of suffering.
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If young people don’t like reading, let’s not blame television or the modern world or school. Or rather, blame them all, but only after asking what we have done to that ideal reader since the days when we played at being both storyteller and book.
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All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.