School makes you stupid!

Or rather, the way
is taught at school today.
We used to say - no wonder - teachers go to school,
then to university and then back to school.
How are they supposed to know anything about life and have learned creativity and
independence?

And lawmakers aren’t changing a thing! It’s hardly possible, anyway, because as the saying goes:
“Parliament is sometimes full, sometimes emptier—but always full of teachers!”

Over 50% civil servants in the German Bundestag. What kind of creativity
and future constructiveness is supposed to come out of that?

Moreover, education is a matter for the federal states and therefore an eternal
political compromise.

Learning is different from working through a study plan and retaining information
for a class test.

As is so often the case—we need a completely different “way of thinking”!
If we want to be future-ready in the German-speaking world,
then we know that the “most important resource” we have,
is right here in our minds! Just how talented and creative we are!

We know from brain research that the first three years of a young person’s life
are crucial for brain development. Therefore,
the very best teachers should be working in preschools, and preschool
should be “free to attend”!
We should give the highest level of social
recognition to those who help children’s brains develop!

And we should be aware that children's education cannot simply be delegated to
.
Parents still have the greatest responsibility.

We can often balance out everything we think is wrong with the system in our private
.

If, as I so often say, the quality of the questions determines the quality of the answers
, then we can ask ourselves again and again,
what questions do I teach our children.

Just like the mother of a Nobel Prize winner always asked her son, “
” when he came home from school:“
” “Did you ask a good question today?”

What questions do you ask yourself and the kids around you?

Sincerely

Wolfgang Georg Sonnenburg
: Winning for Life


P.S. An interesting discussion on the topic of education and school—finally on
public television as well:

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/hauptnavigation/startseite/#/beitrag/video/1720560/Macht-Lernen-dumm?