Alphabet

About the movie

We’re living in times of sweeping changes, crises and disorientation. The financial system, energy, climate change: All the problems in these areas have one thing in common, they were created by humans and we will never find the courage and inspiration to solve tomorrow’s problems by applying yesterday’s solutions. Nowhere else is that fact as obvious as in our educational system, where the greatest opportunities and talents are eradicated by improper methods and forcing everyone into standardized molds. In the future, education must abandon yesterday’s systematic preaching from on high and instead foreground the realization of potential and enriching students through diversity and variety.
From award-winning documentary director Erwin Wagenhofer (Let’s Make Money, We Feed the World) comes an invitation to a new and innovative way of thinking about our education system. Featuring education researcher Andreas Schleicher, author and educational advisor Ken Robinson as well as interviews with parents from all over the world, the film has sparked a major debate in Germany.

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