Tübingen resolution

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The Tübingen resolution is the result of a discussion on school and university reform that took place on September 30 and October 1, 1951 at the Leibniz College of the University of Tübingen .

The Tübingen conversation

The reorientation of schools and universities that was necessary after 1945 led to an overload of the curricula, said university teachers and high school teachers. They feared that a “misunderstanding of the rightly raised demand for increased performance” would have conjured up the danger of “suffocating intellectual life with the abundance of material”.

“The Tübingen Conversation” was convened by Professors Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (Göttingen) and Walther Gerlach (Munich), as well as Georg Picht , the director of the Birklehof School. "Substance spillage and examination inconvenience" are to be observed with concern.

“Achievement is not possible without thoroughness, and thoroughness not without self-restraint. […] Examination methods should be geared more towards understanding than memory. Furthermore, everywhere one should return from the principle of rigid curricula to that of the guidelines. "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Wagenschein, The Tübingen Conversation (1951) (PDF; 95 kB) accessed January 29, 2017.