Die Alte Klosterschule: Eine Welt Der Strenge Und Der Kleinen Rebellen

The well-known sociologist Roland Girtler deals in this book with the world of the old monastery school. This type of monastery education, which the author also enjoyed, is a relic of the Middle Ages and was continued in a classic way up to the 1970s.Girtler describes the old monastery school with its high school and convict, in all its severity and colorfulness and diversity especially from the point of view of the "little high school students". The education to which u. a. learning the old languages ​​of Latin and Greek was also a matter of course, was essentially shaped by the Greek proverb "O me dareis anthropos ou paideuetai" - "the person who was not abused is not brought up". In this Many things were forbidden to the world behind the monastery walls, which seems natural to young people today. The culture of the monastery school with its piety and austerity naturally also produced little rebels - to whom u. a. the author also belonged.