He had been raised to speak French, which the school regarded less as a key to another culture than as an obstacle course and a brain teaser.
Footnotes
Robertson Davies (1913-95), What's bred in the bone, London: Penguin, 1986
He had been raised to speak French, which the school regarded less as a key to another culture than as an obstacle course and a brain teaser.
Robertson Davies (1913-95), What's bred in the bone, London: Penguin, 1986