#1 among the best quotes about learning French is from ‘the Crown’
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There are many quotes about learning french. The best one came up in the series ‘the Crown’. It’s to be kept on the fridge at all times by all who want to learn French.
You are going to find out about that quote. I have been promoting the same idea for many years and my courses have all been built following this assertion.
When you are clear about how to learn French as expressed in the best quotes about learning French, it will change everything for you. You will not have to struggle anymore when you learn French
This post is all about Quotes about learning French
QUOTES ABOUT LEARNING FRENCH
The only quote worth talking about
Here is the quote, which is the best among all the quotes about learning French that I know:
“We learn through imitation. Like anything in life, if we pretend to be something long enough, we may just become it.” By Peter Morgan and James Graham, The Crown, season 3, episode 6.
Why learn French otherwise?
If we choose to learn French through imitation, we give it more value than learning French through study – We learn through imitation means that someone shows and someone imitates, or copies.
Advantages to learn through imitation
I see four advantages of showing, demonstrating that shows how learning French is easy. (we could probably find more). At least I identified 4 of them.
1 – The failure doesn’t fall on the student’s shoulders.
2 – The most challenged kid can learn as much as the nerd.
3 – The process to arrive at the solution is detailed.
4 – The guarantee of the result
I BELIEVE THAT IN ORDER TO LEARN BETTER, COMFORT AND SELF-CONFIDENCE ARE ESSENTIAL, THAT IS WHY IN ALL MY COURSES I SHOW YOU THESE LETTERS THAT BOTHER YOU FROM BEING THERE WHILE THEY ARE NOT PRONOUNCED. THAT IS ALSO WHY I SIMPLY ASK YOU TO IMITATE ME OVER AND OVER USING A LANGUAGE THAT IS CONTRACTED SO THAT YOU WILL FEEL EMPOWERED WHEN THE TIME COMES FOR YOU TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE FRENCH.
Check my courses for learning French through imitation HERE. Many people have told me they would have loved to learn French that way
Let’s see each point:
1 – The failure doesn’t fall on the teacher’s shoulders
Who bears responsibility for the absorption or no absorption of knowledge?
The receiver or the provider? I was a good student but I didn’t particularly like to study. I always felt under pressure to do better. Although it prepares you for the work environment later, we are talking about the learning stage, not the performing stage.
Before I understood that the failure at school is not a human’s fault (whether mine or the teacher’s) I thought that if I didn’t learn it was not my fault, despite the observations. I thought of telling the teacher: Explain better, show me, and I will understand. Find a way to make me learn. It’s not because I understand the concept that I am necessarily learning. Find a way and I will learn. I promise.
I rejected the idea that more work on my part would give me better results. Apparently, I was right because, in Finland, the students work less with better results. So, something was wrong.
It’s not the teacher’s responsibility
Now I know that it’s not the teacher’s responsibility and it’s not mine either. It’s the system.
This system has never changed since the beginning of school. Change the system, let’s come up with ideas like changing the name STUDENT, for example, change the name of the participants, it could give us ideas, new perspectives.
So, the failure doesn’t fall on the teacher’s shoulders. Good news. We can try to put pressure on the kid, the teacher, or the school by scoring them, promising money, or else, if we keep the system as is, nothing much will happen. That’s why ‘no child left behind’ could not bring much improvement. You can change the organization, the curriculum, the schedule. You can punish or reward as much as you want, if you don’t change the form in which you teach, the result will stay about the same.
2 – The most challenged kid can learn French as much as the nerd
The second advantage of teaching through imitation or learning through imitation like one of the best quotes about learning French suggests:
The most challenged and disadvantaged kid can also learn.
There’s no need for charters school that gives the prospect of a better life for a selection of kids. Everyone can imitate. To say that every child will be absolutely equal is certainly utopic and not necessarily advisable. Vive la difference. That difference doesn’t come from the school alone. We all grow up in a different environment and that environment has a lot to do with our education.
The support at home differs if the parent is present or at work. The time that parents can spend with their children is precious to keep an emotional balance as much as possible and accumulate knowledge. So we can see where inequalities can already take place.
School is the place where these differences should dissipate a little, not expand.
In order to find solutions to more equality in the classroom, let’s assume that most of us don’t really enjoy studying. On the other end, I am pretty sure that all of us like to know things.
If we start with this assumption, we can see that maybe there is something we can do with it.
In France, when a child doesn’t do well at school, we send him or her to learn the trades. You will be a baker, or you will make furniture. It generally goes well.
Trade schools fare better
If it goes well, let’s stop for a minute and ask ourselves why it goes well there, and why it didn’t go well in the other school, in the classic academic education.
Have we ever thought to teach academics the way we teach the trades? Is it the subject really or the way the subject is presented that could be the problem? If we identify the problem, we might be able to find a couple of good solutions.
When we learn the trades, masters coach or train us and we are called apprentices (the fact that we now call them students as well doesn’t help and rather brings confusion). We are apprentices like we were when we were going straight to the bakery to learn the job from the owner who was then our master. We have to be careful with the words. They can bring clarity. They can also bring confusion.
That is the way we learn
So, in the trade school, we are apprentices and we imitate the master.
Is it too much to ask to be taught academics through imitation? Who cannot imitate? I don’t mean to stop or delay critical thinking or analysis. No. I just suggest a different path.
3 – The process is detailed
The process
Here is my third point, the third advantage of learning through imitation: The process. You either lecture or demonstrate. I see a big advantage in showing, demonstrating. I can copy. Most people can copy. Too often, when a teacher lectures, we have to find out, to figure out by ourselves how to do it. I don’t say it’s bad. I just say that we might be missing a precious step.
Quality vs. quantity
The quantity of knowledge can be replaced by quality. How can we get the best quality of transmission? I am not talking about the curriculum. I am sharing a little secret of the way I see it could be done. If the teacher is by himself or herself, he or she will probably lecture. It’s the traditional way of teaching.
In order to show efficiently how we would solve a problem, or write about a subject, make a report, analyze, apply a theorem, approach a second language, could it be possible that the task is done in front of me by two teachers, instead of one lecturing me?
The teachers would discuss how they handle such situations, such assignments, and execute with a continued exchange, a detailed exchange. There would be more chances that detail not be omitted if they are two of them because they will have to express their differences.
Why do I suggest this expensive solution?
(I have a solution to deal with the financials that will not be more expensive, but a priori, it could look like an expensive proposition.)
So, why do I suggest this? When we solve a problem as a team, we will have to express out loud all the details or explanations on how to solve the problem or execute the assignment.
It’s a great opportunity for the listener to access the process in order to achieve results. Nothing can be left out. Have you ever had a problem figuring out how your vacuum cleaner works by reading the notice? I am going to the extreme, but Notices, I found out, always miss one step or another. It happens a lot with software. It can also happen when you go to google to find out how to jumpstart your most sophisticated car. It’s always one person writing or talking. There is no shared experience in front of me, no real showing.
But when we transmit knowledge through imitation, it suddenly lifts the pressure from the student’s shoulders as well as from those of the teacher.
Change of dynamic
On top of that, we observe in this configuration that the dynamic has shifted in the classroom.
I am always attracted by people performing in front of me. Someone trying to force-feed me with knowledge is less appealing to me. I am an active listener in the first, passive in the second.
Also, instead of two parties generating energy, now it’s three, with both teachers and the audience. Three points can create synergy. 2 points only create tension.
4 – The guarantee of the result
The fourth advantage of learning through imitation is the guaranty of result
We cannot guarantee a student that he will one day become an expert. I send you back to the post ‘study vs learning‘ for more detailed information.
If the student doesn’t have that guarantee of result, on the other end, the apprentice knows that he will become a master. Otherwise, he will be fired. We don’t fire students. So we could very well imagine that for peace of mind, we would like our children to master first and study second. Because, what happens anyway? At any stage of schooling, I can decide to enter the workforce and when I do it I become an apprentice starting to learn how to do my job.
Follow the tracks
If in middle school and high school, I was focussing on mastering the academics or trades, I would be a master, having learned.
Entering college, I could study the subject of my choice becoming a student. If I decide at any time that I want to quit, I would become an apprentice again. If I would choose to get my Ph.D., I would reach expertise.
This route that starts with mastering should greatly nurture confidence in what school delivers and would reassure the new apprentice about his or her possibilities.
My daughter’s school
My daughter’s school in Paris had its flaws, but the director had explained to the parents that at her school they were not teaching subjects. They were teaching how to express yourself through the subject, verbally and in writing. I was very impressed with their mission, let’s say admission. Because at the same time, they were producing experts because experts talk and write.
So, as they were not producing masters, or in my opinion, they had skipped that step, students would just memorize for the test, get their place into college and start general education again. That in itself is an admission of failure because there is no reason why general education should not be done by the time the children enter college.
They enter college to get a master’s degree when they have not mastered anything. What is wrong with the current system is that in college they still study basically the same way they did in high school.
Let’s dream
Could we imagine a school, middle school, and high school where we teach academics with the idea of mastering these academic subjects first to prepare the children to study next? It’s all about building a great foundation and give every child the same chance. I don’t think it would slow down the most gifted one. It would even speed up his or her training at the end. Why wait until the end of university or college to find a job and finally master something? Especially for most kids, it’s more fun to be an apprentice who learns than a student who studies.
In conclusion
if we want to promote schooling, we don’t have to pretend it will be fun or that school is a necessary way to get a brighter future. The children are entitled to get immediate satisfaction. We have to deliver. Let’s promise them that they will learn. If I am the teacher and I see my students as clients,
if my paycheck depends on every single one of them’ satisfaction, I will make sure they are learning and learning, meaning retaining. The definition of Culture that I like is: what’s left when we have forgotten everything. I’d be proud to have taught a master’s in academics at the end of 12th grade.
We have gone through many reforms, changing the organization, or the curriculum. To change the curriculum has not brought us substantive improvement. Honestly, we already have a fantastic curriculum, with fantastic material and technology that is more and more exceptional day by day. And we have great teachers. We just use them to study when we could use them to learn. So let’s back to work.
WORKSHOP
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