“We can give a smile”: generosity can also be learned at school

The morning pool lesson has the audience yawning. Hair still wet, the CM 1 of the General-Lasalle elementary school (XIX), in Paris, will however have to work on a hell of a piece this Tuesday: philanthropy. The evocation of this somewhat “barbaric” word has, however, unsuspected effects. Far from closing a little more, the eyes awaken, the hands rise and stretch ever higher. “Me, me”, launch several students, who are burning to give their definition to Carole Réminny, general delegate of the School of Philanthropy, who has come to visit them.