Celestin freinet quotes

Freinet was born in Provence as the fifth of eight children. His own schooldays were deeply unpleasant to him and would affect his teaching methods and desire for reform. In he was recruited into the French army and was wounded in the lung , an experience that led him to becoming a resolute pacifist. In he became an elementary schoolteacher in the village of Le Bar-sur-Loup.

It was here that Freinet began to develop his teaching methods. In Freinet purchased a printing press , originally to assist with his teaching, since his lung injury made it difficult for him to talk for long periods. It was with this press he printed free texts and class newspapers for his students. The children would compose their own works on the press and would discuss and edit them as a group before presenting them as a team effort.

They would regularly leave the classroom to conduct field trips.

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The newspapers were exchanged with those from other schools. Gradually the group texts replaced conventional school books. Freinet created the teachers' trade union C. The goal of the C. L was to change public education from the inside with the co-operation of teachers. Freinet's teaching methods were at variance with official policy of the National Education Board, and he resigned from it in to start his own school in Vence.

In , Freinet drafted the pedagogical constants.