17 NOVEMBER 2008, MONDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY<\/p>\n
The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 Closed Society \u2013 4<\/p>\n
Urbatsch explains why it\u2019s worth it for children of working-class families to attend university \u2013 and how they can respond to criticism from their extended families, such as \u201chow long are they going to go on living off their parents\u201d or \u201cwhether they\u2019re just too lazy to get a job.\u201d Urbatsch experienced that herself. She says, \u201cSomebody has to do something about the discrimination against working-class offspring.\u201d She\u2019s looking for allies in that struggle, and every day new volunteers appear.<\/strong><\/p>\n (To be continued)<\/p>\n Source: Reinbold, Fabian, \u201cGeschlossene Gesellschaft,\u201d Die Zeit, 5 June 2008.<\/p>\n *The Technical University of Munich, officially recognized by the German government as an \u201celite university,\u201d is ranked 67 among the world\u2019s universities. That is, for example, sixteen places below Seoul National University of South Korea. (The Times of London, Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 2007)<\/p>\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 \u201cPatriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain<\/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-<\/p>\n 17 NOVEMBER 2008, MONTAG, D\u00dcSSELDORF, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen* \u2013 Geschlossene Gesellschaft \u2013 4<\/p>\n Sie erkl\u00e4rt, warum es sich lohnt zu studieren \u2013 und wie man Vorurteilen in der Familie begegnet, etwa wenn \u00bbauf jeder Familienfeier Verwandte fragen, wie lange man den Eltern noch auf der Tasche liegen wolle oder ob man zu faul zum Arbeiten sei\u00ab. Urbatsch kennt solche Situationen aus eigener Erfahrung. \u00bbMan muss endlich etwas gegen die Benachteiligung von Arbeiterkindern tun\u00ab, sagt sie. Daf\u00fcr sucht sie Mitstreiter, und t\u00e4glich melden sich neue Freiwillige.<\/strong><\/p>\n (Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n Quelle: Reinbold, Fabian, \u201eGeschlossene Gesellschaft\u201c, Die Zeit, 05.06.2008.<\/p>\n *Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, eine durch die deutsche Regierung anerkannte \u201eElite-Universit\u00e4t\u201c, steht an der 67. Stelle in der Welt; d.h., zum Beispiel, 16 Stellen unter der Seoul National University von S\u00fcdkorea. (The Times of London, Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 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 \u201ePatriotismus will hei\u00dfen, Dein Land und Volk zu unterst\u00fctzen, zu allen Zeiten, und Deine Regierung und Staat zu unterst\u00fctzen, wenn diese es verdient haben\u201c. — Mark Twain<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision\/ 17 NOVEMBER 2008, MONDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 Closed Society \u2013 4 Urbatsch explains why it\u2019s worth it for children of working-class families to attend university \u2013 and how they can respond to criticism from their extended families, such as \u201chow long are they going to go on living off their […]<\/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-1486","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\/1486","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=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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