School is important. To get a good job later on, you have to do well in school. To do that, you have to work hard. Then, a good job allows us to live well. To buy a house. To enjoy vacations. To secure our retirement. And to pay for our children's education. But to achieve all that, you have to succeed in school. It's important. That's true. And yet: There is humor in modern schools. In every school. Every day. Despite the ever-present danger of failure. Where does this humor come from? And what is its purpose? Is it even conducive to the school's objectives? Or rather to those of "schole," those of leisure? "Laughter is not the enemy of seriousness but of austerity." Hugues Lethierry
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