12-24-2008, 05:16 AM
freeradical wrote:
[quote=Black Landlord]
I don't get your comment about having your career chosen for you at age 12 (were you in east germany?)
The German secondary school system is far different than ours. Teachers recommend/decide what type of secondary school a student will attend after the fourth grade. Some students attend a school that is designed to prep them for University, while others are sent to schools designed to prepare them for a vocational life. Since very few children in the fourth grade have any idea of what they want to do in life, these teachers are indeed deciding what someone will eventually become.
Yup, got that, Gynasium vs. Realschule with eventual abitur.
Still far from deciding one's "career".
And not without advantages over our "system".