Le Petit Prince ne va pas bien. Essai sur une pédagogie à rebours

In the present paper we compare Saint-Exupéry‘s Le petit princewith Mike Osborne‘s movie The Little Prince from the perspective of certainmodern teaching strategies, which we consider to be ―anti-pedagogical‖ at best.The aim of this essay is to point out that nowadays‘ education, be it parental orinstitutional, hence child/student-oriented, is going in a wrong direction and,worse even, leading to traumas. One of the multiple causes is that literatureplays an ever less significant role in the process of education.