Changing with the times

School as entertainment?

Christian Mähr has noticed that things are a little different in educational institutions today than they were when he was at school.(Bild: Oskar Spang / Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek)

Entertainment in the classroom.(Bild: ZVg)

There are currently a lot of articles in the press dedicated to coming to terms with the pandemic - one text from a quality German newspaper had a strange effect on "Krone" science expert Dr. Christian Mähr.

No, I wasn't interested in the coronavirus investigation itself. Rather, the text was a "nodding" article - that's what I call printed material that makes the inclined reader nod incessantly. And the non-nodders stop reading after the first paragraph anyway. The article was about the impact of school closures on children. It said that school was the most important living space outside the family - and this social environment was closed for months.