I don’t know whether this is common or typical to even the Czech school system, but it’s certainly peculiar to the school I attend.
My friend sent me her preparation materials for our maturita exam with and asked me to review them. I randomly opened one of the 20 Word files, about the prose of the 1st half of the 20th century, and it struck me immediately:
“Marcel Proust - The Search for the Lost Time: inspired by Proust’s memory of dipping cookies in the tea.”
I recall this cookie-and-tea frenzy from two years ago rather well. Whenever anyone’s subject of the oral examination turned to Proust, the unlucky student quickly connected one and one and fired:”Proust, that’s the guy who dipped cookies into the tea!”
During my high school career I’ve noticed the teachers’ tendencies to simplify subjects to this level. Korea was solely about chaebols and any topic in biology always digressed to its effects on global warming.
With the maturita approaching, all those painful memories are arising again. Oh no…
