He
____________________
born
on
October
15
,
1896
,
in
Gars
,
a
small
town
in
the
French
Maritime
Alps
.
His
youth
,
like
that
of
the
small
farmers
of
that
time
,
____________________
among
the
workers
of
the
countryside
,
in
a
poor
region
,
with
a
harsh
climate
.
His
father
Joseph
Freinet
____________________
engaged
in
agriculture
,
and
it
is
believed
that
his
mother
Marie
Victoire
Torcat
____________________
a
small
food
store
.
In
October
1912
he
____________________
the
Normal
School
of
Nice
,
for
this
he
____________________
for
a
year
at
the
elementary
school
of
Grasse
,
the
capital
of
the
region
.
On
October
1914
,
the
1st
World
War
____________________
Célestin
Freinet's
life
,
on
April
15th
,
1915
he
was
sent
to
the
front
but
not
before
receiving
his
certificate
of
"
Fin
d'Etudes
Normales
"
(
title
of
Primary
School
Teacher
)
.
On
October
23
,
1917
,
he
was
seriously
wounded
and
,
some
time
later
,
requested
his
entry
into
teaching
.
In
1920
he
____________________
part
of
the
school
of
Bar
-
sur
-
Loup
.
The
beginning
____________________
not
easy
,
he
____________________
no
pedagogical
experience
,
he
____________________
sick
and
his
lessons
____________________
"
boring
"
.
He
soon
____________________
that
traditional
teaching
did
not
work
and
he
"
thought
about
leaving
school
"
.
He
____________________
to
prepare
for
the
position
of
"
primary
inspector
"
;
with
which
he
begins
to
study
in
a
self
-
taught
way
the
great
pedagogues
Pestalozzi
,
Rousseau
,
Montaigne
.
He
____________________
____________________
____________________
the
inspector's
exam
but
he
was
the
professor
of
letters
.
In
1923
he
was
sent
to
the
high
school
in
Brignoles
,
but
resigned
and
____________________
to
return
to
Bar
-
sur
-
Loup
,
"
he
____________________
that
he
____________________
to
continue
teaching
in
primary
school
"
.
That
same
year
he
____________________
the
second
Congress
of
the
International
League
for
the
New
School
.
Two
years
later
he
made
a
trip
to
the
USSR
and
____________________
more
convinced
of
the
close
relationship
that
the
school
has
with
the
environment
where
it
is
carried
out
.
He
____________________
a
new
"
technique
"
as
he
liked
to
call
teaching
:
the
printing
press
.
He
____________________
to
go
out
with
his
students
through
the
fields
that
surround
the
school
,
he
____________________
them
to
write
their
own
texts
of
what
they
were
learning
;
texts
that
the
students
themselves
would
print
with
the
help
of
the
printing
press
.
He
____________________
children
the
freedom
to
choose
their
own
path
,
even
if
that
means
they
sometimes
made
mistakes
.
In
1933
,
he
____________________
all
his
time
to
the
creation
of
a
"
free
experimental
school
"
and
to
develop
pedagogical
material
.
In
this
way
,
between
1934
and
1935
a
school
was
built
in
Vence
.
Classes
____________________
with
children
from
families
with
problems
.
Célestin
Freinet
was
arrested
for
his
communist
ideas
and
sent
to
a
concentration
camp
,
in
1944
he
was
released
and
reopened
his
school
.
Freinet
____________________
on
October
8
,
1996
.
He
is
recognized
and
admired
by
all
the
professionals
of
the
pedagogy
around
the
World
.
