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'Should be read by any teacher or parent who wishes to understand the flaws in our education system' Frank Burbage, TLS.
'What Pennac has to say in this impressionistic, entertaining, provocative and insightful book is of relevance to anyone involved in education. 9/10.' Martin Spice, TES.
'Describes what faces a school dunce when the teacher before him cannot recall what it felt like to be ignorant ... Playfully written ... School Blues joyously combines the profound with the seemingly trivial. It gently reminds readers how ignorant it is to have forgotten what it felt like to have but little knowledge' Economist.
'What Pennac has to say in this impressionistic, entertaining, provocative and insightful book is of relevance to anyone involved in education. 9/10.' Martin Spice, TES.
'Describes what faces a school dunce when the teacher before him cannot recall what it felt like to be ignorant ... Playfully written ... School Blues joyously combines the profound with the seemingly trivial. It gently reminds readers how ignorant it is to have forgotten what it felt like to have but little knowledge' Economist.
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'Should be read by any teacher or parent who wishes to understand the flaws in our education system' Frank Burbage, TLS. 'What Pennac has to say in this impressionistic, entertaining, provocative and insightful book is of relevance to anyone involved in education. 9/10.' Martin Spice, TES. 'Describes what faces a school dunce when the teacher before him cannot recall what it felt like to be ignorant ... Playfully written ... School Blues joyously combines the profound with the seemingly trivial. It gently reminds readers how ignorant it is to have forgotten what it felt like to have but little knowledge' Economist.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
When you see that Quentin Blake has written a foreword, you know that what follows must be pretty good stuff and this splendid book is no disappointment. M Pennac - himself labelled a dunce at school, lays bare the many ways in which schools (and sometimes, sadly, parents) damage and cripple many of their youngsters because they simply don't recognise the multifarious ways in which learning may take place. His stories and reflections, and his fragmented narrative style, are both thought-provoking and inspiring.
If you think school is about filling kids like jam-jars with "education", then read this. And, if you're Michael Gove, read it twice (in the hope of understanding it).
If you think school is about filling kids like jam-jars with "education", then read this. And, if you're Michael Gove, read it twice (in the hope of understanding it).
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The economist gave praise for this book in a review in Sept 2011; I am not sure why. I really this meandering train of thought that does little to reinforce any central theme. Maybe I am getting lost in the translation. Regardless, I do not recommend.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A Real Eye Opener
24 Oct 2011
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Mr. Pennac has very well made a point in highlighting the failure of the outdated education procedures of yesterday and today. He offers real solutions by helping the reader change their focus from problem to solution. As he has pointed out, the public educational process does an excellent job of producing "Ignorant slaves and blind consumers." A man with one eye has no problem leading the blind. Read this book and get a vision, with both eyes open, of what we want for our children and our childrens children. Being smart and being intelligent are not one in the same.
Rob Wood
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
Rob Wood
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Ironic
11 Oct 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
It is ironic that once you endure education;a vapid, endless night of shrieking teachers, glum parental stares, idiotic ritual, soul-blasting assessments of ones gross inadequacy, the preposterous social fraud of high school, and hideous, rictus-grin nostrums of "maybe better next year eh?"; to come out at the end, (all important academic record fit for TP, better lied about and hidden), to realize that without school, learning is actually rather easy; to assume on no prior authority or experience that one is worth more than a slice of wet toast; to teach oneself, and so one does slowly and then reads lots of books and so finally is able to read this one. And realize that educated people have been pointing out educations flaws for decades and nothing gets done.
How pointless the whole pile dung is. For the sake of some lack of imagination, one is obliged to be educated in this shocking way. 12-16 miserable years of it. I knew no other life than that! And in the end, it turns out everyone knows how inane it is. Its like prison; no one likes it but it is supposed that it serves some purpose; what that purpose might be... well they are working on it. But everyone had better just keep going to school in case hell freezes over or the sun falls out of the sky.
How pointless the whole pile dung is. For the sake of some lack of imagination, one is obliged to be educated in this shocking way. 12-16 miserable years of it. I knew no other life than that! And in the end, it turns out everyone knows how inane it is. Its like prison; no one likes it but it is supposed that it serves some purpose; what that purpose might be... well they are working on it. But everyone had better just keep going to school in case hell freezes over or the sun falls out of the sky.
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