The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.