Bertrand Stern | |
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Born | Montbéliard, France | 11 November 1948
Nationality | German |
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Children | 1; Gabriel (born 6 March 2019) |
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Website | Personal website (in German) |
Bertrand Stern (born 11 November 1948) is a German author and philosopher living in Siegburg. He describes himself as a freischaffender Philosoph (freelance philosopher).[1][2][3]
He focuses on issues critical to civilization with regard to human dignity, in particular the outbreak from the school ideology and aspects of free education, as well as questions about medicine and health, money and work, and transport and mobility.
Stern was born the son of the pedagogue Arno Stern[2] and Claire Stern in Montbéliard, France on 11 November 1948. He has two siblings and a son named Gabriel,[4][5] who was born on 6 March 2019 at 2.15 AM.[4] He grew up in different places in Europe and therefore speaks German, French, English and Spanish.[6] He attended a total of 13 schools and disliked his school time.[2]
From 2011 to 2012, he was a lecturer at the University of Kassel.[6] Stern is also an author for the website Rubikon.[7]
He initiated the feature film CaRabA #LebenohneSchule, which was released on 9 May 2019 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland,[8] and introduces unschooled, free-educated people. The producer is Joshua Conens.
Stern thinks that the current school system is counterproductive and will collapse very soon.[9]
Stern is against the Schulpflicht (a German law forcing young people to go to a school). He sees it as a fundamental human right to be able to educate oneself freely, which is violated by compulsory schooling and criticizes the schooling ideology in his books and publications,[10] which he describes as "inhuman" ("inhuman"), "verfassungswidrig" ("unconstitutional") and "obsolet" ("obsolete") and has "[...] überhaupt keinen Platz mehr in unserer Wirklichkeit" "[...] no longer any place in our reality".[11] He thinks that the Schulpflicht will be abolished very soon.[2][12]
In an episode of the format "Positionen" ("Positions") at KenFM from 2019 in which Stern was asked by Ken Jebsen how the school system would be in three years' time, he replied that there will be no more compulsory schooling.[13]
In an interview with the German YouTube channel Schools of Trust, Stern said that creating new work costs more than what it generates which is why he thinks that humanity will work less in the future.[14]