Cubes
This window of an old house ...
It reminds me of when I was ten.
This feeling of rain, cold, a little ... of wet trees ...
It's really sensations I had when I was ten.
I was in CM2.
The teacher... we had to learn the multiplication tables.
And then he made us learn tables of "squares".
Ie 2 squared = 4. 3 squared = 9.
And also ... he made us learn tables of "cubes" !
I wondered why we had to learn tables of cubes.
One day we had exam, so... I had not wanted to learn the table of cubes.
Because I did not understand why.
In the pocket of my black sweat suit, I put a piece of paper on which I had written...
All the results of the table of cubes.
1 cubed = 1. 2 cubed ... uh ... (2 x 2 = 4) = 8 !
3 cubed = 27.
During the exam, at a certain point, the teacher approached me.
He slipped his hand into the pocket of my sweat trousers.
And he tore out the little piece of paper.
That's all ... I don't remind more ... I should have had zero to the exam, I don't know.
Was he right to make us learn the table of cubes ?
Without knowing why we were to learn this table of cubes.
A movie by Benoît Labourdette 2013 Anglet (France)