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Synopsis: A documentary that analyzes the modern educational system and argues that it squelches children's capacity for imagination, creativity, and independent thought.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Erwin Wagenhofer
Production: Pandora Film
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Year:
2013
113 min
120 Views


Second place in high jump.

'Uitmuntend student.'

'"Studietopper."

First prize Mathematical Olympiad youth department, this year.

This is the fourth year.

No, in the fifth year he finished second. That was last year.

First place in the National Mathematics Olympiad ...

in fifth grade.

And this one...

Hang him to.

Nice.

Let me see.

Beautiful, huh?

Which is from 2012. The first prize.

Win there are only a few.

The next time you're there again.

Nowadays you often hear the following statement:

"Children can not lose at the starting line."

That shows that very small children ...

take part in the competition. The consequences are clear:

Our children win at the starting line, but ended up losing them.

Our students are not educated ...

to curious creative people ...

but to test machines.

Every year there are suicides around the entrance exams of universities.

And there are quite a lot.

The situation has historically never been as bad as now.

China reaches all parts of the highest scores in the PISA test ...

and serves as great example.

The OECD in the 90s education as an economic factor put on the agenda.

To foster competition the PISA test was developed.

I'm Gerald Hther. I once studied biology ...

and have become a brain scientist.

The scientific name is a neurobiologist.

I have done twenty years experimental brain research.

In recent years, my interest is especially ...

how to put scientific findings into practice.

Around this church was during the Thirty Years War the village.

The Catholic and Protestant forces have done here so many raids ...

that the whole village has been wiped out.

Actually sees our history like this.

War, misery, expulsion, and always fear again.

We now know that parents pass fears on to their children.

They are afraid that their children do not end up well ...

and that fear is passed.

That's called transgenerational transmission.

The fear is internalized into the essence.

They must come from somewhere and that could be only in our history.

Also our school system is formed by such suffering histories.

To conduct the wars of the last century ...

were needed youths who functioned well.

The school had to tame and train people.

A cadet training. Otherwise it was nothing made.

And not just the military ...

had well-functioning and-trained people are needed.

That was true for the whole economy.

In the so-called Age of Machines ...

people had to actually function as machines.

To that end, schools were set up ...

and so it was taught.

The people who delivered the school had to function properly.

If people were needed all day a lever servants ...

than they did.

And as in the Auschwitz gas chambers had to be filled ...

then it was done.

I believe that we finally have to recognize ...

it is not good to people in such a way off ...

they always do what they are told.

McKinsey is a leader in the field of management consultancy.

We help big companies to answer strategic questions ...

to further develop their businesses ...

and thus maximize their economic opportunities adequately.

We want to ensure that young top talents get the chance ...

to leave in the form of a competition to see what they have to offer ...

and what is important.

They need to learn to get out of their comfort zone.

I like it when everyone is willing to work hard and a lot ...

because they want to achieve something for the company.

That is at Porsche very present.

That is in the best interest of the company itself.

Dictates the market.

And if you look into the future ...

what does your ideal senior executive, male or female, look like?

Competitive. The rest does not matter.

Regardless of how?

A major study has been done on divergent thinking.

Divergent thinking is not the same as creativity ...

but it is an essential condition for creativity.

It is the ability to see many answers to a question ...

many ways to interpret a question ...

and not to think only linear or convergent.

They have 1500 people have a test.

If you scored above a certain level ...

you was labeled as a genius divergent thinker.

What percentage of the 1,500 people who took part in the test ...

achieved the level of genius divergent thinker?

Age:
3-5 years

98 percent ingenious thinking level

It was a longitudinal study, five years later it was repeated.

The children were 8 to 10 years.

Age:
8-10 years

32 percent ingenious thinking level

Five years later they were examined again. They were 13 to 15 years.

Age:
13-15 years

10 percent ingenious thinking level

200 000 adults aged 25 years and older were tested once ...

as a control group.

Age:
25+

2 percent ingenious thinking level

This is interesting. We can conclude two things:

We all have this ability, but usually disappears.

A lot is happening in the lives of children as they grow up.

But one of the most important things is that they go to school.

They go to school and learn a decade that there is only one answer is possible.

It is not that teachers want. It just happens.

Because our education system that works.

If so, we have to think very differently.

Then you can not believe anything can ...

and seek ways to make education even better ...

to score better on the PISA test.

You'll have to instruct people, but invite to learn.

That is what I mean by self-management.

People can not develop.

That does not work. That brains can only himself, and only if they want to.

You can not force people to do so. You can only invite them.

Dat is de kunst.

Well, I'm going to read the first chapter.

What's that chapter? -'It Game and rail.

It is an introduction.

"I have been working for over sixty years with children.

Although not in an educational environment.

As a teacher, I had long since been retired. "

That is funny-

Funny. -It's true.

"Then I had to recover from a tough career.

I'm not going to stop my activities.

I still work continuously, like when I was young. "

If you look at the drawings of little children ...

you see how rich they are fantasy.

Once they go to school, hold on.

Then it's over and there will be something else.

Then comes what they have learned.

They are no more spontaneous ...

but carry out assignments to please the adults.

They meet their expectations.

A child can do what it wants ...

and wants nothing more than what it can.

In this way, gedt a child in a natural way.

This is only possible if you have a child which grants freedom.

That certainly does not apply to a student who must follow a curriculum.

The worst thing you can teach kids ...

is that they believe they can not do it themselves and have to execute commands.

My name is Arno Voice.

I was born in 1924 in Kassel.

I am a servant in the painting game.

That is a job created by me that previously did not exist.

Like the painter Oord. There it started.

From there, my role has evolved.

My serving role.

At this place a special game is played ...

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