Sihem Souid regrets that texts, video games and social networks are dragging down the taste for reading and the quality of writing.
France had earned its letters of nobility through its history, its culture, literature and philosophy. What a store of achievements we had! France, the country of the Enlightenment, saw in every age its geniuses of writing, its barons of prose, its grand dukes of the alexandrine — Victor Hugo, Rimbaud, Verlaine and so many others, names that would not fit in a single dictionary. A dictionary that, in the 21st century, has become very useful and very often digital.
Forty years ago, people spoke of the global method, the semi-global method and still others. Debates raged over teaching, and more particularly over how children learn to read and write. The 1980s showed us what the great bosses…
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Sihem Souid