Romain Gary. European education (№ 404405)

She wanted little: to love, to eat well and to be warm, and she asked herself why it is so difficult to love and not die of hunger or cold? It is much more important to find the answer to this question, she thought, than to know everything that her peers are taught in school: that the earth is round, that it turns and how it is spelled correctly: Chrzeszczy chrzaszcz wtrzcinie *.