How beneficial it is for me, a retired needlework teacher, to read the article by Eliane Perret about Jochen Krautz’s new book in Current Concerns No. 3 from 14 February 2023. In today’s school Pestalozzi’s “Head, Heart and Hand” has been abolished. Pestalozzi helped to set up a school to educate mankind who can independently assume their responsibilities in direct democracy. Our youth today can hardly read and write correctly after nine school years! The hand is abolished. There is no longer any training to become a needlework teacher. There is no crafting subject in school that still deserves its name. The heart has been abolished because the students are channelled through a program path on their own through self-organised learning and weekly schedules; the teacher is only allowed to be a coach and has to remain in the background. Artificial intelligence is programmed in a similar way. Teacher-centred instruction has been abolished, and so no class community can emerge. Our youth, left alone and homeless, are quickly losing their footing (because of Corona, they say) and are now filling the psychiatric clinics. Poor youth, the school has let them down too.
Marianne Bürkli, Bronschhofen
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