understand anything in my first year. When I came 
back, I was one day standing here next to this 
table. And he had a paper in his hand from Le  
Monde . Le Monde Diplomatique —it was an issue. A 
special issue of Le Monde  of Paris and there was 
an article of an interview of him, or something that 
had been translated about education. And he 
asked me—he had this very kind of autocratic 
way—he had inspirations and he would just, 
without considering anything else, would simply 
say “What if I would just follow up on my 
inspiration? Here is a French-speaking person who 
knows a bit of my work. Well let’s see if this paper 
is well-translated.” I mean, he could have very well