Career Change

[Hitman]

I have been teaching sporadically in the university and at the lawyer's school, so that is a very different kind of teaching that dealing with young guys. When you teach universitaries and specially post-universitaries, the key thing is to explain things well, specially the basic concepts they need to use in the future as base of their reasoning. However, in my opinion, when teaching young people the main difficulty is actually motivating them. Grown ups in post-university WANT to learn, they are there for a reason and expect that you explain things well; however youngsters many times do NOT want to learn, they are there because their parents sent them to school or because they do not want to work.

So my advice is that you read some books about psychology of teaching to young people. But choose wisely, there are too many "good will" psychologist writing nonesense around.

Originally, we had "Grundschule", class 1-4, then a selection for either Hauptschule from class 5-10, or Realschule classes 5-13, or Gymnasium classes 5-13. Expect in Berlin, where the Grundschule was from class 1-6, and the higher schools followed from class 7 on.

That original system, which I myself experimented, worked reasonably well and served to lead people into what was most appropiate to their abilities/motivation, but as you say it has been destroyed by good-will leftists who think that it was classist or leaded to frustrations. What a stupidity. Having in the same class intelligent and stupid childs with and without a support at home and huge differences in many areas is a sure way to disaster. But don't tell that a leftist, they want everybody to be able to have a universitary title -and if they lack the level, then let's move that level down. So everybody can be "equal".

For me that is nonesense, people need to get a fair opportunity that is not limited by their family money and teaching support to make the best out of it. But if they don't, then so be it and it's perfectly acceptabel that they work at something else instead of frustrating themselves and destroying the universitary education of the others who can/will.

Now try to explain that to a no-brainer leftist ...