Studies & Lessons
Also known as: Studies & Lessons
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Show in diary 223 mentions Thematic Tag: Studies & Lessons
This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs about Marie's own education outside the studio: lessons and teachers, governesses, the plan of study she draws up for herself, Latin and Greek, history and languages, examinations. Marie is a fierce autodidact who educates herself because no one else will.
Tagging Criteria
- Tag a lesson, a teacher or a governess, in a specific scene or judgment.
- Tag a plan of study, an hour table, a decision to learn or give up a subject.
- Tag Latin, Greek, mathematics, history and languages studied.
- Tag Marie's self-assessment of what she knows.
- Do not tag art training in the atelier or lessons with painters (Her Art).
- Do not tag singing and piano lessons (Music).
- Do not tag reading for pleasure (Reading) unless framed as study.
- Do not tag children's education in general with no bearing on her.
- The bar is that the paragraph is substantively about the theme; a passing word never qualifies. A paragraph takes at most three themes.
Common French Cues
- Nouns: la leçon, le cours, le professeur, l'institutrice, la gouvernante, les études, le plan d'études, le latin, le grec, l'examen
- Verbs: étudier, apprendre, répéter, repasser, travailler
- False friends: travailler often = to paint or to practise, not to study; cachet = the fee for a lesson
Notable Patterns
- In the early carnets the fourteen-year-old drafts her own curriculum and sets her own hours.
- Her dismissal of a dishonest tutor (Michelazzi) is both Education and a lesson in running her own household.