I noticed off N-TV (commercial German news) an interesting study that had been accomplished on German schools.
So there's this feeling that the German education system is not 'tooled' for the new culture/society approaching. In simple terms, the people who run the schools believe that more 'life-skill's need to be introduced.
Life-skills? Well, this gets into health/nutrition, IT, maturity, financial/economic 'tools', and everyday common sense situations.
They kinda point out that the type of teachers required for this....aren't in existence today. You'd have to introduce a new thought process, and teach some teachers the new dynamics.
The curious part of this 'idea' is that if you watch the public 'sub-networks' (HR, RBB, SWR, etc).....you get daily lectures on all of these topics. I sat last night and watched the weekly HR show 'MEX'....which spends 45 minutes each week dumping health, diet, IT security, financial and common sense issues. In some ways, I think if you packaged the show (forcing kids to watch it) and assigned a dozen tasks over a school year....you'd accomplish most of what they suggest here.
Would the kids (age 13, 14, 15) appreciate this? No....it's dull information and most would not see the logic to know that 99-percent of fast-food is bad for you.
I think this will end up as a political discussion item....dumped around for the next four years.
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