"Elite is Schietere".

Around 20,000 students joined Wednesday "education strike 2009" in Berlin. Their biggest frustration: the Bachelor verschulte system, overcrowded university and classroom exercises. More money for education all wanted. And if not? "Then we demonstrate every year."

 

Martin sees the burnout in the lecture hall come. "Scrapping for your children - with 23 burnt out" stands on a white banner, which he shared with a friend on the square in front of the Rote Rathaus in Berlin drags.

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Martin is 23 - and feels according scrapped. More than 40 hours he works per week for his studies, a bachelor's degree in biology. In addition, he has a job at the university to financially make ends meet. The timetable is tight, three years is foreseen for the study. To the depth to go was much too little, accuses Martin.

For the professional world, he is hardly prepared for stressed and dissatisfied. With his concerns, Martin is not alone. This Wednesday draw tens of thousands of students through the streets in Germany to protest.

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To Martin down in Berlin, according to police hoot about 12,000 young people and wag with posters, the organizers even speak of over 20,000 participants. "Elite is Schietere 'stands on the banners or" Why? Why? Why? Who does not pay, will remain stupid. "

The demonstrators contend that the German education system for antisocial, under-funded and structured to be wrong. Also Evelin gets on her bachelor's degree at. Fixed prices, no choice, continuous pressure testing and attendance requirements. "It's like in school," complains the 27-year-olds. Seriously wants to be and get more freedom.

The professor knows little student names

Forward in the crowd someone yells into the microphone: "The universities and colleges are still us!" Before a loud commotion breaks the voice, the mass grölt and applauded anyway. Then drown the demands of the students through the speakers: the abolition of tuition fees, an end to the existing bachelor's and master's degrees, more self-determination in the study, more student loans and more money for universities.

Better finances wants Thomas Mellewigt at his university. He is professor of economics at the FU Berlin and stands in the middle of the protest crowd. Lectures with 400 students at his institute were not uncommon, he says. The names of most of his students know he is not.

"Sometimes I see the times students are not in the lecture hall when it is full," he says. Because employees are missing, he must more and more administrative tasks themselves. Mellewigt is annoyed by the "rhetoric" of the politician. All stressed repeatedly the importance of education, "but then nothing happens."

200 in the exercise: "Such compounds are toxic for learning"

A few meters away stands one of Mellewigts unnamed students. "The life would never know my name," says Hannes, "but how will he?" Also a student of the economy is exasperated by "exercises" with 200 students. "Such compounds are toxic for real learning," says Hannes.

Louis also moves with his friends in the demo. The eight-graders still do not think at university, he has very different concerns. "We are 32 students in the class," he says, "that is simply too much." In the classroom it was always loud, the teachers were stressed. "They have always a bad mood and not so much time to prepare for the hour," says the 14-year-olds. Constantly falls teaching, because too few teachers were there.

Even the eight-year high school makes it to create. "Since everything is just runtergerattert, and we still constantly lagging behind," he says. More money for schools, smaller classes and more teachers he would. If all this does not come, Louis already has a Plan B ready: "Then we go every year on the road."

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