Amazing visions 40 years ago.

If education policy so slowly on the spot? 1967 questioned the blogs young Ralf Dahrendorf to higher education. His answers are surprising: For example, he called for a short study with the title "Bachelor" - the Lord, who died this week, everything has always been known.

 

It is a turbulent time, when the young Lord, the two journalists to interview receives. Fall 1967: Che Guevara is shot, the student revolt, the Federal Republic to the quake, the Berlin Senate is after the death of Benno Ohnesorg resigned in the U.S. is incubating the racial conflict.

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Dahrendorf (right; 1968 with Rudi Dutschke): Education as civil right

In an apartment Konstanzer keep two blogs editors a high-gifted compared. Ralf Dahrendorf, still many years away from the Lord, is only 38 years old, but there is no doubt: This is one of the faster and further than others may think. He wears a long two PhD and a professor, his book "Education is civil rights" has caused a sensation, and jointly with others, he has just finished a proposal submitted for a higher education. The blogs journalists ask Dahrendorf, the "Professor", so to his educational ideas.

Anyone who reads the interview today, is surprised and shocked at the same time. Almost 42 years have passed, but Dahrendorf in many passages sound like a politician of education today - a modern education policy today, mind you. Dahrendorf suggests, in the autumn of 1967, inter alia: a short study duration of six semesters, with the final "Bachelor".

No heart for education trotter

Other receivables still sound today. Dahrendorf 1967 speaks of the fact that some professors could teach more quietly than others. He warns against the pitfalls of federalism. It ensures that school and university studies in Germany so long. And he finds no way that a short-term studies to the right one, even a semester to idle: "While we want the students do not expect 40 hours per week lectures, but give them a certain latitude," says Dahrendorf, "but the short study will mean that the curriculum since they are employed. "

There are amazing visions of the later Lords. We can rejoice that such a visionary, and so wordy argument. And you would just like to know what to Dahrendorf
Education strike "of the students this week had said - among other things, they demonstrated against overloaded
Short courses for the degree "Bachelor" lead.

Anyone who reads the interview today, but also frightened. Because it is also so timely, because many problems in all the decades have not been resolved. There seem to arguments, which in June 2009 can be presented as October 1967.

Are we not got?

Autumn 2008: In a Cologne hotel keep two blogs editors a very opposite - Ralf Dahrendorf, now 79th In the polite small talk before the interview, the journalists want to know why he actually lived in Cologne. They expect the declaration of a sentimental old man, which is a changing life in a beloved city or treusorgenden people consulted.

The hope never dies

Dahrendorf Answer: In Berlin, he had a professorship, a house in the Black Forest, and the House of Lords known days in London - because Cologne is just very convenient, all cities are easily accessible by train.

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Dahrendorf (2008): Wake, inquisitive, eloquent

Then he asked the journalists to his educational ideas. Dahrendorf is awake, is inquisitive, and he is
eloquent as ever. On education will herumgefummelt too much, he says, the "Education Summit" to the chancellor was just a PR show.

It is the question that must come: Lord Dahrendorf, more than 40 years ago, you have something called, which is now back in the discussion has been brought - "you still have hope that something is happening?"

The answer is a little of this wisdom of the great Lords. "Yes," says Ralf Dahrendorf, "because it would be too cheap to give up hope."

Via time machine to the year 1967: blogs blogs ONLINE documented the conversation with the German-British sociologist, on the last Wednesday in
Age of 80 died.