Who is Marc Block?

[Hajime]

Hello,

Who is Marc Block?
Stroustrup's 'The C++ Programming Language' 3rd Ed. Appendix A starts
with his maxim:
"There is no worse danger for a teacher than to teach words instead of
things."
I had investigated a little, but I cannot find original text other
than Stroustrup.
Anyone knows original text? Or anyone knows Marc Block?
I'm a Japanese novel writer and going to quote the maxim to my piece.

Thanks.

[Michael DOUBEZ]

Hajime wrote:

Marc Block is a french historian. I guess you can find his bio in
english somewhere. I found this one:
http://www.answers.com/topic/marc-bloch

Perhaps is it a quote from his book "The Historian's Craft"

--
Michael

[Hajime]

Thanks, but I cannot found the maxim in the book:
http://books.google.com/books?id=YZdCcT_1Z8YC&dq=The+Historian's+Craft&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=ja&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result

I had investigated about Marc Bloch by French language, but it seems
to me that no one quotes the maxim, at least within the range of
google.

[Hajime]

I found.
http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/bloch_marc/etrange_defaite/bloch_defaite.pdf
"de pire danger que d’enseigner des mots au lieu de choses."

Thanks.

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Hajime <haj...@kaoriha.org> writes:

Yes. The quote would be:

« Or, tout professeur le sait bien, et un historien, peut-être,
mieux que personne, il n’est pas, pour une pédagogie, de pire
danger que d’enseigner des mots au lieu de choses. »

--
__Pascal Bourguignon__