Hassan Blasim Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his beard. They didn't teach us the names of the flowers that grew around us in the city - wild flowers of all kinds and all colors. The math teacher used to whip the kids with his trouser belt. My father was constantly violent toward my mother for the most trivial reasons.

  Hassan Blasim

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we go to school and run into literary Arabic as children. It sounds like a foreign language. The words for "house" or "table" or "lamp" are not the same as the words we use at home, and most of the other words are alien to children at school. Classical Arabic is one of the prisons of the Arab world.

  Hassan Blasim

  Mother, Running, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• How can one talk in a classical language about a child who's torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People in Iraq don't talk about their joys, their problems, and the destruction of the country in literary diction.

  Hassan Blasim

  Country, Children, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• The Iran-Iraq war began the same year that I went to primary school, at the age of six.

  Hassan Blasim

  War, School, Iran

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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