The End of the Classroom

From LeMonde, November 14, 2012 – “And the window panes return to sand/The ink returns to water/The desks return to trees…”: pictured as a schoolboy’s daydream by French poet Jacques Prévert in Page of Writing, in 1945, this process of physical breakdown is now becoming a reality. The disintegration of what seemed to be the very heart of the school–the classroom– is underway. Assaulted from all sides, its walls are collapsing