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M Hamel said this as most of the people of Alsace could neither speak nor write in French. It was indeed shameful that French people were ignorant of their own language. Infact Hamel also was responsible for that as he gave the work of watering his flowers to children in place of telling them to learn their lessons. The parents also gave more preference to work rather than learning.

M.Hamel blamed himself , the students and the parents of the students for the neglect of learning French language.They did not gave due attention to the learning of their native language French and needlessly postponed their learning till the next day.The parents were not bothered enough to have their children learn their native language French and opting them to put them work on farm or at mills.Even M. Hamel did not utilised his all time to teach his students French and often them to water his flowers and gave them holiday whenever he wanted to go for fishing.Students delayed their learning of French thinking that they have plenty of time and wasted their time in trivial pursuits like seeking birds' egg and going sliding on Saar. [ in simple words reproach to blame for doing something wrong ]