Vincent Van Gogh :
Dirks
Dirks
You only spent one year in the school of your village which was located opposite
your house... M.Dirks, a competent teacher, ran the school...
After the school hours, he also gave lessons of modern languages from 4 p.m
to 6 p.m. He was respected and appreciated in the village...
Thanks to him, the school had expanded and included 200 pupils. Why did your
parents decide to withdraw you and your sister from school?
Had you become rude and rugged at the contact of young peasants, as Jo, Theo’s
wife, suggests? Or had M.Dirks’s behaviour changed after the loss of
three of his children? He was seen drunk in the streets... But his alcoholism
got even worse far after you had left the school... So why?
Aersten
Dirks
You only spent one year in the school of your village which was located opposite
your house... M.Dirks, a competent teacher, ran the school... After the school
hours, he also gave lessons of modern languages from 4 p.m to 6 p.m.
He was respected and appreciated in the village... Thanks to him, the school
had expanded and included 200 pupils. Why did your parents decide to withdraw
you and your sister from school? Had you become rude and rugged at the contact
of young peasants, as Jo, Theo’s wife, suggests? Or had M.Dirks’s
behaviour changed after the loss of three of his children? He was seen drunk
in the streets... But his alcoholism got even worse far after you had left
the school... So why?