Welcome to the European Bildung Day Bildungtainment Center 2020
We wanted to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration somehow, but simply could not figure out how to squeeze a symphony orchestra and 45 minutes of fireworks into the website. So, instead, we created this page.
The quiz was open May 8th and May 9th during the European Bildung Day 2020 conference. You are free to take the quiz, but you cannot win anything now.
Please enjoy!
In Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Schuman Declaration
Meet Jeroen van der Moost
Keynote speaker Friday — to see more of his art, go to https://www.jeroenvandermost.com/
The Bildung Song
You will just have to imagine the conference dinner and see if you can sing it by yourself…
Get The Lyrics
Music: Alley Cat, Bent Fabric
Lyrics: Lene Rachel Andersen
What is it that makes me happy every day?
Savvy and not a fool?
(it’s Bildung!)
Keeps most trouble far away,
And makes me really cool?
What is it that makes me take one for the team?
Even though it may suck?
(it’s Bildung!)
Gives me my autonomy
When others act en bloc?
It’s Bildung, you know,
It’s making us grow,
And Bildung we know
From German philosophy and Pestalozzi
What is it that spreadsheets cannot grasp at all,
Even though some may try?
(It’s Bildung!)
Makes the PISA hit the wall,
And makes bureaucracy cry?
What is it New Public Management won’t get,
‘cause it won’t fit the forms?
(It’s Bildung!)
Will defy all measurement,
Challenge the gen’ral norms?
What is it that Herder showed in history,
Seven-teen-sev’ty-four?
(It’s Bildung!)
Goethe’s Werter, how did he
Fight ‘till he could no more?
It’s Bildung, you know,
It’s making us grow,
And Bildung we know
From German philosophy and Pestalozzi
What is it that freedom and democracy
Have at their very core?
(it’s Bildung!)
Guarantees our liberties,
Dissident fun galore?
It’s Bildung, you know,
It’s making us grow,
And Bildung we know
From German philosophy and Pestalozzi
We do!
Bent Fabricius Bjerre a.k.a. Bent Fabric won a Grammy for Alley Cat in 1962.
The Schuman Declaration
Bildung Quiz
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The Nordic Secret
Take our quiz and win the book.
The first three people to get all the questions right win Lene Rachel Andersen’s and Tomas Björkman’s book The Nordic Secret.
Corona Bildung
Friedrich Schiller talked about two kinds of aesthetics:
First there are the calming aesthetics that align us with society and turn us into rational people (Pestalozzi, the Swiss pedagogue, was less politically correct and called it to be domesticated like a pet (Haustier)).
Second, there are the envigorating aesthetics that wake us up and turn us into moral people who can think for ourselves and handle political freedom.
Do you find any of the videos below calming or envigorating?
Italian Corona Aesthetics
Same Corona Aesthetics in English
Chinese Corona Aesthetics
European bildung goodies for which we can take absolutely no credit at all
The EU Loved by the British
Italian Music Loved by the Danes
The US Loved by the Dutch
The EU Loved by the British
British Education
One Greek Loving Brit
Same Greek Loving Brit as Above
Some Roman Loving Brits
Peace of Westphalia
Don’t Mention the War
Don’t Mention the War
Don’t Mention the War
Funny thing: we probably don’t even have to show you the original clip.
Finnish Mosters Quoting Bible
Ukranians as Martians
Germans as Mongolian War Lord
Swedes Identifying with French Emperor
German Pop Band Supposed to Look American Unknown Outside Europe With Strangest Dance Moves Singing About Scharlatan Charming Russian Zar
Strauss Glorifying Austrian General of Czeck Descent in Napoleonic Wars Ending up Ruling in Italy