“Because, in actual fact, they don’t need anyone to teach the children anything. Because it’s they who educate their children themselves, who teach them to recite poems by Ariosto before they can read; explain Euclidian geometry using the Elements as a textbook; play them a fragment of a Palestrina motet for them to guess which one it is. It’s they, my dear, who regularly cross half of Europe to sit their children before Fra Angelico’s Noli Me Tangere, show them the high altar of St. John Lateran, bring them face-to-face with the capital of the Temple of Aphrodite.” “So why do they want a
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