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17 years
Star sign: Country of birth: Germany Religion: lives with his parents in his own room |
Brothers and sisters: School: Dream job: Role model: |
| »The sad thing about school is that it
doesn’t really prepare you for life. think are just plain stupid and they should be left out and replaced by something else.« |
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Excerpt: Hmm, school. School is really something. But I’ve noticed that I sometimes put on an act at school. It’s happened that I got a bad grade in a subject I was actually good at just because I’d once criticised the teacher. The school is simply supposed to confirm: He’s good at Maths and German, or he’s not so good at English when I go for an apprenticeship. If the teacher reckons I’m a bastard as a person, I don’t care if he writes that at the top of my school report, but that shouldn’t affect the grades. If I crawl all the time, carry the teacher’s bag – it just has to be the right teacher – then I get an A or a B. But people who say what they think haven’t got a chance. They’re allegedly incompetent. And that makes me mad! Then I’d really like to kick up a stink! But that’s just when I don’t do anything after all. Because if you object to anything like that at school, you end up spending a year longer than you’d anticipated there. That nearly finished a friend of mine. The sad thing about school is that it doesn’t really prepare you for life. You learn the most fantastic maths formulae, which might help you to think more logically or whatever. But you’re not taught so many subjects which would teach you about life, like Social Studies or Community Studies, where you learn how society is structured, how to behave in society. There are too many things I think are just plain stupid and they should be left out and replaced by something else, like discussions where everybody can say what he thinks. As far as that goes, I think school is still very old-fashioned. And that goes for History too. We keep going over all the old stuff, and we never relate it to anything more recent, never open people’s eyes. In the past it was like this and today it’s just the same! If you take Hitler as an example, then they all tell us how terrible it was then. Nothing like that could happen nowadays. But I’d say, it is possible nowadays, just in a completely different way. Extreme situations are always possible. Because when the people notice that they’re being taken for a ride or they can’t get on, someone like Hitler could come to power again. ... |
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