Schools…
Schools are a hostile place. Schools are a dangerous place. Schools are a place of torment, distress, ordeal… I really must stop overusing thesaurus. Schools are a place of child abuse.
One quote from Hermann Hesse’s “Unterm Rad” (Beneath the Wheel) has burned itself into my brain. Since I cannot possibly translate it properly into English, I used the free version of deepl.com
(more…)“By now they had reached the country road and quickly arrived at the monastery, where all the teachers, led by the Ephorus, received the dead Hindinger, who in life would have run away at the mere thought of such an honor. Teachers always look at a dead pupil with completely different eyes than a living one; for a moment, they are convinced of the value and irretrievability of every life and youth, which they so often carelessly sin against.”