Citation de paddyfrog
Our village school was poor and crowded, (...) We learnt nothing abstract or tenuous there - just simple patterns of facts and letters, portable tricks of calculation, no more than we needed to measure a shed, write out a bill, read a swine-disease warning (...) "Twice-two-are-four. One-God-is-Love. One-Lord-is-King. One-King-is-George. One-George-is-Fifth..." (...) we didn't hear what we said; yet neither did we ever forget it.