quinta-feira, 3 de março de 2011

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[...] The education of a motley group of 20 young people, aged 16-18 – with nothing much in common but a failure to pick up five GSCEs at grades A*-C – is a rather more difficult assignment. But Jamie Oliver's idea in Dream School was to get his hands on these kids, however late in the day, expose them to some "inspirational teachers" and see if he could put them successfully back on the educational track – all in front of television cameras for a seven-part Channel 4 series. I [Mary Beard] was asked to take on the job of Latin teacher. This was to be the only foreign language on the Dream School curriculum. (Don't imagine that Jamie himself has a particular hankering after "amo, amas, amat"; the fact is that there is an ex-Cambridge classicist somewhere high up in the production team, with fond memories of the subject.)

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