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Günther Jauch in December 2020: Going home with two teeth in hand
Photo: Henning Kaiser / dpa
The moderator, journalist and producer Günther Jauch criticized the federal structure of the German education system in an interview with the weekly newspaper »Die Zeit«.
This leads to “extreme imbalances within Germany”.
The learning levels of the pupils in the various federal states are very different.
»When you move from Bavaria to North Rhine-Westphalia, there are often learning differences of one year.
In Bremen there are already two, as I often hear, "said Jauch of" Die Zeit ".
He therefore considers the Standing Conference "the largest conceivable mouse delivery room."
The Basic Law speaks of the same living conditions - "on the other hand, we do not have the same educational conditions," said Jauch.
The 65-year-old also criticized the course content: taxes, insurance, legal basics?
The school hardly teaches anything about that.
Children and adolescents have "major deficits in terms of normal fitness for life".
The moderator, however, spoke out in favor of one hour of exercise a day.
"By the way, I consider two subjects to be extremely important, music and sport." Both music and sport encourage community experience, but also teach frustration tolerance.
Jauch has mixed feelings about his own school days, as he once had two teeth knocked out in elementary school. “There were quite a few children at our school who came from children's homes. In their desperation they had no other means of expression than violence. In the morning, for example, these children arrived with 20 packets of cigarettes that they had stolen from a machine at night. At nine! One day someone grabbed me because I had said something he didn't like and beat me up in such a way that I came home with two teeth in hand, ”said Jauch.
At school he "always did just enough so that I didn't get in trouble at home and that I didn't sit down either." But he didn't have the will to be really good: "I was just ordinary." But Jauch looks back on a teacher with admiration.
Mr. Fitzek, the father of the bestselling author Sebastian Fitzek, was the best teacher he had in school.
“It was good because it taught us to abstract from our own feelings and beliefs.
So in the sense of thesis, antithesis, synthesis: deal with different points of view.
Let other opinions prevail, and if you have come to a conclusion, please give reasons.
When I enter into discussions today, I still have in mind what he conveyed to me. "
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