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Chronicles of an Idiot at Work in the Realm of Mathematics
Speculative portrait of Pavel Bobok Kostakovitch
“School was never for me anything more than a place of obligation.We went there under constraint; we learned for exams, not for life. Everything that truly shaped my mind, I acquired outside its walls: through reading, through travel, through encounters, through the free discovery of the world. It was only by escaping school discipline that I learned to think for myself.”
The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig
“The day when the whole truth about school will finally be revealed — a day still very far away — humanity will have to face a gigantic mystification, a monstrous imposture. It will be discovered then that teachers give grades, that students do not listen; that they do nothing, that they cheat, that teachers let themselves be fooled; and that three terms of the current school could very well be condensed into thirty hours of intensive work.”
Memories of Poland, Witold Gombrowicz
“Le plus grand enfermement de tous les temps est celui des jeunes. Parqués dans les lycées, angoissés par les examens qu'ils vivent comme un coup de dé dont dépend leur vie, menacés d'être considérés comme des sous-développés de l'intellect s'ils ne récitent pas le catéchisme du penseur à la mode, les jeunes se sentent exclus de toute participation sociale. Les conditions scolaires de nos enfants se fondent sur le désir de plaire à un adulte, de se venger d'un échec affectif, de contrôler une angoisse sociale. Ce désir semble prendre ses racines dans la relation plus que dans le plaisir. Le stimulant naturel essentiel, la curiosité, devient un stimulant bien affadi chez les enfants scolarisés.”
Mémoire de singe et paroles d'homme,
Boris Cyrulnik