Today was the 50th anniversary of the words every schoolchild learns and we remember every year.
More than that, Mr. Kechiche cleverly suggests a continuity between the put-downs and imprecations of today's teenage slang and the arch, urbane banter every French schoolchild learns to identify as "Marivaudage".
Every schoolchild learns the sad tale of the American chestnut: how the towering trees that once blanketed the East Coast from Maine to the Florida Panhandle were wiped out by a blight imported from Asia in the early 1900's.
Every French schoolchild learns the date: February 28 , 1571 the day a well-regarded and uncommonly educated nobleman named Michel de Montaigne retired from "the slavery of the court and of public duties," moved a chair, a table, and a thousand books into the tower of his family castle, near Bordeaux, shut the door, and began to write.
The new leader's agenda would be what he called the "great dream of national revitalisation", which is often interpreted to mean lifting China to the first rank of world powers and reclaiming for it the preeminent place that every schoolchild learns was China's lot for the majority of recorded history.
After all, every schoolchild learns that Santa Claus is a descendant of the Dutch Sinter Klaus, or St. Nicholas, that tall, lean character who rides a magical white horse through the winter night (Dec. 5th is St. Nicholas Evee) depositing gifts in children's wooden shoes.
As every American schoolchild learns, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, after being refused by the King of Portugal, received funding from Ferdinand of Spain to sail west and "discovered" the Americas on October 12 , 1492
In Western societies, every schoolchild learns that "sex chromosomes" decide "who's a boy and who's a girl".
Every Australian schoolchild learns of what met the Australian troops at Gallipoli on the coast of Turkey in 1915, where the British high command deployed Australian troops in a half-cocked invasion attempt of Constantinople.
For centuries, every Chinese schoolchild has learned to copy it.
