souvy

Updated: May 10, 2025

In Punaauia, the next district to Fa'a, was a schoolhouse and on it a sign: 2 x 2 = 4. M. Souvy, a government printer of Tahiti, had given the site out of his humble savings. By the sign, in his blunt way, he struck at education which does not teach the simple necessity of progress common sense. "Cela saute aux yeux," he had said.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.