Strictly for the French is how Yvonne Mitchell sums up childhood on the Cote d'Azur in this series of highly personal films
For the past eight years Yvonne Mitchell, the actress and novelist, has lived on the French Riviera.
She has watched her 13-year-old daughter Cordelia receive a very different education at the local schools from anything she would have experienced in Britain.
In her One Pair of Eyes Yvonne Mitchell compares the two. She asks: can the highly disciplined French system, with its long hours, its emphasis on learning by rote and discouragement of self-expression, do more for a child than our own, more liberal methods?

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