During the Session, education was a topic that popped up a lot of times form different perspectives. So here is a small collection of the dicussion:

Education Gap

• Ingmar: I as a non natural scientist may be very intereseted in topics of phsics or chemistry but there is either very low or very high level literature. It is nearly impossible for me to learn it.
• Markus: This is a general phenomenon, because there are only universities for teaching. They decide about education … (please explain again ;)
• Claudio: This problem does not exist so strongly in the IT sector, because it is ecenomically relevant to teach people and so there are a lot of alterantives to classical university teaching.
• Florian: This would be an interesting topic for the opportunities of our coworking space. I would love to use it as a pltform, where we as scientists can connect to non-scientist and learn about better communication. I believe that scientists do think too little about how to communicate out of there bubble of specialists.

What is good education?

• Illych: Education takes place best when the contents are of importance for the people (Brazilian guy - Markus?)
• Willi: My experience is also that I coudl learn things super fast, when I wanted to know them.
• Markus: Generally, education should not be like this: People are interested in something, so they try to learn it. Maybe with somebody, who has good knowledge about it. Instead it is often the other way around: Some people decide that tey have something important to teach and “in the best case” look how to motivate the sutdents to learn that. This is pure narcism.
• Florian: I think that this is a great utopia, but in my experience there were a lot of cases where a teacher tought me something that I was not interested in before and I was happy about it later. So I think also the “narcistic” approach has its right to be. Although I never wanted to see the narcism and I am glad for this for em new perspective!
• Claudio: I think the best education is the opposite of a classroom: people read alone an dthen come together to discuss! (see Antonio Negri)
• Ingmar: My experience at UCM was very diferent to “normal” university: we had small classes, talked with the professors on the same level and actually followed the pronciple described by Claudio. But the drawback was a too intense amount of stress.
• Florian: I think that what Ingmar described does not have to come together but today typically is a feature of elite universities: good teaching/education for the price of too many courses and exercises at the same time. Besides that there is mass education on the normal universities.