23 JULY 2007, MONDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY<\/p>\n
No Applications from the Lower Classes, Please \u2013 and at the Technical University of Munich? \u2013 7<\/p>\n
\u201cA critical point has now been reached where it must be decided whether education and opportunity are possible in Germany even for the so-called \u2018precarious classes\u2019 at the bottom of the social scale. At that level of society, poverty of education has been inherited from one generation to the next for a very long time.<\/p>\n However, it is not a good sign when conservative commentators maliciously pull to pieces the recent newspaper article on justice written by the Social Democrats\u2019 leader, Kurt Beck. Such attacks are like an announcement by the \u2018citizens of the dark force\u2019 that they intend to defend their inheritance, and they will do so by avoiding contact. When the \u2018social climbers\u2019 force their way into German high schools and universities, their upper-class counterparts simply withdraw to expensive private boarding schools and \u2018elite\u2019 institutions of higher learning.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Source: Tanjev Schultz, \u201eAkademiker unter sich,\u201c Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 20 June 2007.<\/p>\n \u201cI love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.\u201d – James Baldwin<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision\/<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n 23 JULI 2007, MONTAG, D\u00dcSSELDORF, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n Keine Bewerbungen aus den Unterschichten, bitte \u2013 und an der Technischen Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen? \u2013 7<\/p>\n \u201eEs ist jetzt ein kritischer Punkt erreicht, an dem sich entscheiden wird, ob Bildung und Aufstieg auch noch f\u00fcr Angeh\u00f6rige des Prekariats m\u00f6glich werden – einer Gruppe, in der schon seit Generationen (Bildungs-) Armut vererbt wird. Da ist es kein gutes Zeichen, wenn konservative Publizisten Kurt Becks j\u00fcngsten Zeitungsbeitrag \u00fcber Gerechtigkeit zum Anlass nehmen, h\u00e4misch \u00fcber soziale Aufsteiger herzuziehen. Hier k\u00fcndigt sich an, dass der D\u00fcnkelb\u00fcrger sein Erbe hart verteidigen wird. Wenn die Aufsteiger in die Gymnasien und Hochschulen dr\u00e4ngen, weicht er auf teure Internate und Elite-Unis aus.\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n Quelle: Tanjev Schultz, \u201eAkademiker unter sich,\u201c S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, 20.06.2007. <\/p>\n \u201eIch f\u00fchle mich wie eine Person, die von einer Gruppe Schl\u00e4ger angegriffen und verletzt wird. Man vergibt die Schl\u00e4ger, aber man muss andere Menschen vor ihnen warnen.\u201c \u2013 George Sand<\/p>\n \u201eIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c – James Baldwin<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision\/<\/p>\n ===========================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 23 JULY 2007, MONDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY No Applications from the Lower Classes, Please \u2013 and at the Technical University of Munich? \u2013 7 \u201cA critical point has now been reached where it must be decided whether education and opportunity are possible in Germany even for the so-called \u2018precarious classes\u2019 at the bottom of the social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-munich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cI feel like someone who has been attacked and injured by a group of thugs. You forgive the thugs, but at the same time you have to warn other people about them.\u201d \u2013 George Sand<\/p>\n