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October 09, 2007
EDUCATION / Symposium for executives fully booked with 140 attendees
Schools and economy feel as partners and want to learn from each other By Jochen Korte SCHWÄBISCH HALL School and economy - these two "systems" have much more in common as one might usually think. This fact became apparent during the executive symposium held by the Würth foundation's competence center Economic Education in Hessental. 140 top executives from both groups corroborated their will for cooperation in the fully booked event "Successfully Managing Change - Leadership Culture in Schools and Economy". A win-win situation for both sides. How this can work in practice was illustrated by Heribert Rohrbeck, CEO of the Bürkert group based in Ingelfingen. The company regularly approaches schools and offers concrete projects. Plans are also to become active in kindergartens to get the children enthused about physics for example. "Definitely out of self-interest", Rohrbeck admitted, as this could safeguard the company engineer new blood. With this he expressed exactly what Professor Dr. Peter Eyrer from the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology Pfinztal was thinking. Schools and technical colleges should reduce the didactic teaching which is currently at 90 percent. Through serious projects the students' potential could be sparked. For principal Barbara Graf this was nothing new. According to her, work at her school is structured "in a very differentiated and project-oriented way". In general, teachers showed a good deal of self-confidence, pointing out that schools had changed over the past ten years and were on a positive path now. The bad image of teachers and schools was, as they put it, undeserved. Thus the economy could learn from the schools how people of different backgrounds and cultures are brought together and how children are perceived in their individuality, said Barbara Graf. One thing she wished for was for the economy to approach the schools with more courage. The significance of project work is also appreciated by Corinna Derrer. The theoretical instruction is supplemented by the realistic insights into the economy. ''All of us should think and talk positively about our schools, get to know and support each other", Hannelore Gloger summed up the discussion. Both parties had been able to debate in a good atmosphere and on the same level. One result of the two-day event with workshops and lectures for Matthias Wagner-Uhl, principal of the Club-of-Rome school in Neuenstein: ''The differences between the economic and the school system actually aren't that big." | Privacy Policy |
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