mike weimann

[berlin, germany]

Mike is one of idec 2013’s coffee talkers:

In 2005 the group, K.R.Ä.T.Z.Ä., hosted IDEC 2005 in Berlin, which triggered the European EUDEC movement. In 2008 Mke was co-founder of the democratic Netzwerk-Schule in Berlin. The school is still growing and has now 67 students. 

He attended IDEC conferences in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2011. 

I would like to talk about the development of the European Democratic Education Community. In particular, I like like to discuss the idea of an international diploma to be handed out to graduates of independent democratic schools. 

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The legal situation of children is comparable with that of serfs or captives – even though many people deny this. The status of children is approximately the same as that of women in the 19th century. In the society of today children are not perceived as people, which they indubitably are, – human beings, autonomous beings – but as objects; and that is how they are treated: as objects of instruction, of discipline and of protection…

…For this reason we, the KinderRÄchTsZÄnker (aka K.R.Ä.T.Z.Ä.), demand equal rights between the generations – in the family as well as in the whole of society, and therewith the repeal of all discriminatory age limits. We also demand that compulsory schooling – the way children are unescapably forced to go to school – be replaced by a right to self-determined education; parents must not be able to override this right to learn in freedom, not under compulsion, in a part-time prison.

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idec 2005 in berlin, germany

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