Sabine Czerny

“ . . . and I still do not want to believe it.” That is the end of a key sentence in Sabine Czerny’s report on her experience, which has just been published. She is a Bavarian teacher who was given a warning because her teaching was too good. The case hit the headlines, prompting her to write nearly 400 pages compiling “what we do to our children at school and how we can change it” – the title of her book. (…) In seven chapters and an epilogue, Czerny presents the school, which focuses on the primary level. She gives an insight into a system “that to a high and irresponsible degree makes our children failures and losers,” where “everyone” is “a victim”, “parents, teachers, and pupils”, and that this “is damaging to society”. In contrast, she gives a summary of her efforts to persuade people “that all children can learn well and that there are no stupid children. But we (the teachers) produce failures, or rather, the system allows us to produce failures."

Freerk Huisken: „Das Schulsystem zwingt uns, Verlierer zu produzieren“
© Süddeutsche Zeitung, 27 November 2010