Translations
T1
The book How to Be a Teacher
has just come out in bookshops.
It is a book of advice by F le D, a certified professor of modern
literature, who taught for nineteen years in a priority education zone in St.
Denis.
In fifteen chapters the author shares her experience with concrete
examples.
It is not a pedagogical book that pretends to replace the teaching
masters program. Rather, it is about ideas/tricks to gain time and avoid
discouragement.
Every beginning teacher makes mistakes.
You must be sufficiently open to understand them and thus more efficient
to correct them.
This guide offers ways to avoid the difficulties that can harm a class.
// This guide gives clues to dodge the problems that can hurt a class.
The quality of teaching depends on mutual respect between student and
teacher. The teacher is there to help
the students, not to trap them.
T2
She talks about her life without sex.
In her novel Desire, SF admits
the unspeakable: her experience of sexual solitude.
SF: We talk a lot about asexuals and people who abstain because they are
in protest mode, and expressing something radical.
But there is a terrible taboo surrounding sexual solitude. It is not
feeling that you are outside the norm, which would be less serious; it is to
feel that you are worthless.
In the beginning my editor said, “Above all, don’t tell anyone that it
is about you.” As if admitting it would cause less envy than pity.
But what I find less desirable is to live against your own truth. It’s
better to have many years of ‘nothing’ than depressing relationships. The lack creates imagination: everything you are
not doing goes to your head / gets into your mind.
But people prefer to think that you don’t have sexual needs. They are
troubled by the absence of sexuality which makes them think about solitude,
which/that they both fear and desire.
You stand alone and you are free. You do nobody/no one any harm when you
stop making love and yet you are as threatening as if you were a reactionary.
T3
Emotions are complex reactions over a short time. . . // Emotions are
complex short-term reactions that result in a modification of the physiological
sphere — heart beat rate, perspiration, pupil diameter, etc. — and strong
subjective feelings.
They also/equally have an often recognizable expression. They have a usefulness, otherwise they would
have disappeared during our long evolution. . .
Anger is a primary emotion // is classed as // called primary. It is
part of the six fundamental emotions defined by Darwin (1872) and is
universally recognized.
Thrill seeking // Looking for strong emotions is today considered as a
personality trait.
However it corresponds to different motivations which range from a
simple activation (of emotion) to a predisposition for risk-taking and
dependent behaviours.
