Once upon a time...
Once upon a time, there was a little school in the small village of Trégarvan.
At that time, the time of Jules Ferry, primary education was compulsory until the age of 13.
At that time, the priest, faith and traditions, and the teacher, knowledge and evolution, clashed.
At that time, we still dream about it, making five mistakes in a dictation was eliminatory!
(You will find in this article additional information on the birth and evolution of dictations, and the creation of the school certificate)
The end, and the rebirth...
Around the 1970s, everything evolves, everything changes, and the towns absorb the countryside. The small village schools closed one after the other, and the famous "black hussars of the republic", the teachers so respected in the village, also disappeared...
In 1974, it was the end, and the last school bags went away forever on the backs of the last pupils.
Then, in 1977, it was a renaissance: the school became a museum and officially reopened one of its classrooms! This was the beginning of the beautiful journey of the Rural School Museum...
A museum, really?
When we talk about a museum, we are talking about a place specifically dedicated to the conservation and presentation of a certain number of elements from a specific sector.
This is not really the case here, since it is the school itself that has become a museum. You can dream of blackboard, chalk and inkwell in the real classroom, you can visit the teacher's kitchen, smile fondly at the advertising blotters or the handicrafts!
You will be able to practise different activities, including, for example, your participation in a writing workshop with a penholder! Yes, with a penholder... you remember, that utensil with a metal nib (ah! the sergeant major nibs!) that you dipped in ink to be able to write, without making any 'pâtés' if possible!
Dictations for the 'certificat' on Facebook live...
The certificate of studies was the highlight of the year, the terrible test to which the teacher presented only his best pupils. And, among the tests, French weighed heavily! And it included a dreaded dictation... the dictations of the time are so many testimonies, so many descriptions, of a village life with its farms and houses, with its trades, with, all around, its woods and its hills.
Very modern, in fact.
This rural school museum does not only evoke the past, it also brings it to life through today's technologies (it offers a connected multimedia guide), and through social networks.
And once a month, you too can find yourself a schoolboy in a grey smock (pen holder optional!) and rediscover the spelling worries of yesteryear, by doing one of those famous dictations for the school certificate in a connected group.
Jules Ferry on Facebook live...
Museum of the rural school in Brittany
GIP Museums of the Finistere territories
Croas Névez – Kergroas
29 560 Trégarvan
Tel: 02 98 26 04 72
contact@musee-ecole.fr
http://musee-ecole.fr/
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