[Music]
I grew up next to the German border went
there with my parents to visit Germany
for shopping as many of you from the
older generation they too I remember
well the stone I remember of the customs
officers
I remember the guns few guns dogs some
fences it was a time of the richest
wonder it was the time when there was a
mixture of jealousy on the one hand and
deep respect for what the German people
had accomplished except for that one
Sunday in 1974 how we were better a
nineteen at the end of the 70s the load
ómnia facta on bottom line of group was
active in the border region and about
five to six kilometers from where i
lived there was an assault on custom
officers and two of them were killed
result was heavy armed defense with
armored cars machine guns but still we
felt connected to the German people
despite this threat we felt connected to
them because we spoke their language
because we visited them for shopping but
also in the meantime for holidays and of
course we watched a television with a
Rowan called cultural ambassador there
OD in 1979 has started to my study to
become a teacher and one of my subjects
was geography so I traveled I had a good
reason to travel all over Europe and I
also visited some communist countries
and I saw it with my own eyes the Iron
Curtain the human creation that divided
Europe for many many years I also was in
Poland in 1980 1981 when solid owners
came up for the Democratic right of the
Polish people it started there
and I was standing in a bus again
without air-conditioning for two hours
at checkpoint charlie waiting for
someone to come out and take a look at
passports one of my other subjects was
history and there I learned about the
Berlin Conference of 1884 1885
well the Western democracies of the
Western countries at that time or and
split up the African continent just
because of their interest to organize
things well for them many of you may
know that millions of people’s have died
due to the tribal wars which were caused
by these lines drawn on a paper on one
Sunday morning or afternoon and still on
a daily base people are dying or running
today because of these lines and what
about the Iron Curtain where is it now
this piece of concrete is a line of
concrete and steel except for some
pieces in the museum how many lives have
been spoiled spilled and destroyed it is
estimated that about 2,500 people have
died as a direct result of the Iron
Curtain
how much welfare and money has
evaporated because of this idea several
studies have shown that on the average
we estimate that only the unification of
unification of Germany has cost about
1600 billion euros not saying that we
shouldn’t reunify Germany but we could
have used this money if they hadn’t
started whether you are in curtain in a
far better way in the world the end of
the 80s was overwhelming to me as well
as for many people from my generation we
saw with our own eyes that people were
able to break down the most violent
I think borders we had ever seen Michael
Gorbachev did a good job in the former
Soviet Union the Polish people turned a
system into a democratic system and the
Germany was reunified the people in
tomash whare revolted again through
dictatorial regime hishaku and it was
1979 the time of Pink Floyd the war
imagine Oh 70 starting to study as a
teacher
[Music]
of control
[Applause]
I hope you can imagine I was 17 just
left my own diapers it was a little bit
disturbing for me and but let’s go back
to him
two to two borders maybe we can take a
closer look at or just a quick look at
the map of Europe in 1910 and 1930 and
2010 or maybe a little bit more
next-door province of Limburg can’t find
it
14th century oh there it is a little bit
different shape but it’s there that is
and this is how we know it now but we
don’t know especially off of the
previous speaker we don’t know what the
ball will look like in a hundred years
threat problem no absolutely not because
what happens with sight but scientific
research shows us is that the
inhabitants of the province of Limburg
have a high level of intercultural
competencies its logic because we had
Spanish influence we had French
influence we had German influence I
believe we even had some Dutch influence
we even created a system in which babies
need an ID card to travel across borders
wonderful and we raised the child the
children and you awareness that if you
lose this document you’re lost it gives
you an identity when you were abroad you
need it absolutely to be an a person and
identity when you’re abroad and don’t
forget it don’t lose it because you
don’t exist anymore in my opinion it
would be good if we would change borders
into frontiers both words are
translation of the Dutch word Kent’s
but a border for me is a limit it’s an
expression of interest of power mostly
by us as a result of self declared
serenity of national states a francha
offers a challenge a limit you want to
pass so I would like to raise and we’re
doing that at home raise children in the
context of frontiers because if we
succeed in changing from borders to
frontiers we will create a much better
world because the children will see the
border not as a limit where to stop but
to cross and go over and meet other
people learn about other cultures learn
different languages
broaden the horizon but we need some
change fundamental changes in thinking
in our thinking and I think the the the
most important group there is a group of
parents but it’s also the most complex
group because we have an enormous
variety in characteristics and
backgrounds of parents and thank God we
live in a democratic part of the world
for each and every parent has the
possibility to side decide within the
legal framework about the education of
his or her child a second possibility
would be a change in education and I
believe it’s still very complex but
that’s the same thing we should do
professor Karen Robinson stated in his
TED talk in February 2006 that the
Western educational system can be
determined as an industrial process
where we push young creative children
like on a production line through
classes based as he mentioned this year
of construction recognition is the only
relevant part
or aspects of intelligence and where the
average is the standard so it’s only
fitting scientifically for less than 1%
of our children the system we have
created and there are wonderful
initiatives for cracking the system but
the tendency still is and even more and
more of regulation and monitoring mostly
because politician politician
politicians want to have influence on
education in the name of the well
spending of public money you know what
they do is that they create a system in
which teachers are becoming more and
more administrators instead of coaches
of the learning students and students
pupils are benchmarked or over benchmark
towards the standard instead of to their
capabilities possibilities ambitions and
talents maybe maybe maybe we could take
an example from the people in eastern
Germany not to revolt again they and the
a core national government so absolutely
not but what they did is that they
changed their experience reality into a
desired reality and they did not only
change the system they changed their
lives they changed their future and they
changed the future of the children by
taking an active part or an active role
I was very lucky I am very lucky I had
the possibility to realize some of my
ideas in education most recently as the
chairman of an of the expert team for
Regional Education in the province of
Limburg a fantastic group of experts
were working on the internationalization
of Education we’re starting in primary
education and what do we do that will
bring children together we don’t
organize formal lessons we bring them
together in activities they’re dancing
together they’re singing together
cooking together making theater etc hey
you know what happens there is that
these young children filled in need
for communication they want to
communicate with the other children so
there is an internal motivation to learn
the foreign language and what we do is
to assist them there to help them not by
formal grammar lessons or literature or
whatever no help them to use the
language as a means of communication
about 40 schools and then work up is
participating in the schools about 2,000
young pupils young students annually in
secondary education we continue this
line by encouraging people young
students to participate in exchanges in
projects in physics etc and we encourage
them to improve their linguistic skills
in the neighbor languages especially for
German and French and we have one
pre-vocational location where students
are encouraged to in a massive way to
participate in international orientation
programs about 90% of the pupils leaving
school there are or have obtained a good
certificate certificates which is
worldwide recognized in German language
so it’s pre-vocational school up 10% of
the students there participate in
international job orientation programs
just like Tom for example Tom’s world
was his neighbourhood he’s working now
as a heavy-duty vehicle mechanic in
arkin at the ICR and he came there
because he did his job orientation there
the colleagues in the vocational and
higher education continued the programs
we have Erasmus programs visits exchange
programs etc etcetera so it’s it it’s a
very widespread package of activities
that we do and we encourage stew
to study abroad may I give you another
example before I go to my final
conclusions and Britt Britt is a girl
which is with but participating in one
of her job orientation programs and we
have tested her that she would be very
fitting to the profession of mechanical
engineer Britt is 16 years old says whoa
very nice thank you very much but I
would like to study fashion and design
in Utrecht okay but you know his
possibilities RIT as polite as she said
okay I give you the possibility to
convince me so I’ll do the work and she
took part in the job orientation she did
her work fantastically but at the end
presentation she said thank you very
much for all the opportunities that I’m
going to study fashion and design in
retract but but ladies and gentlemen
something must have happened something
must have touched her because Britt is
now second year student at the elevator
Harkin and mechanical engineering and
Business Economics so it has a result
okay
the possibilities are enormous for our
children if we could erase if it could
decrease these borders for example the
region of arkin has a lack of
professional cure and cure people in
2028 3,000 people please imagine that
these people would have an average
income per year of 35,000 euros which is
what I think required realistic if we
could provide those 3,000 professionals
within 10 years it would bring 100
million euros annually extra income to
our region and that excludes still the
multiplier the future generation is
waiting for us yes yes we are increasing
their linguistic competences we are
increasing their inter cultural
competences there and
noria competences and of course there is
an economic interest in this program yes
it is but on the other hand we are also
raising a generation of children was
able to experience the limits of borders
as challenges of frontiers who are able
to see what the strength of their will
of their mind and their activities is so
in a generation which will go abroad and
take their chances we are the generation
that has to help them that has to clean
or erase the borders in their minds we
owe them because we are also the
generation which created it or at least
conserved them and if we have to do it
and if we are the generation to help
them and let’s do it together
parents for the future of your children
decision-makers for the future Russia
region ladies and gentlemen
globalization is starting next door and
now let’s do it together I mean I hope
you are too
thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
you
[Music]
I grew up next to the German border went
there with my parents to visit Germany
for shopping as many of you from the
older generation they too I remember
well the stone I remember of the customs
officers
I remember the guns few guns dogs some
fences it was a time of the richest
wonder it was the time when there was a
mixture of jealousy on the one hand and
deep respect for what the German people
had accomplished except for that one
Sunday in 1974 how we were better a
nineteen at the end of the 70s the load
ómnia facta on bottom line of group was
active in the border region and about
five to six kilometers from where i
lived there was an assault on custom
officers and two of them were killed
result was heavy armed defense with
armored cars machine guns but still we
felt connected to the German people
despite this threat we felt connected to
them because we spoke their language
because we visited them for shopping but
also in the meantime for holidays and of
course we watched a television with a
Rowan called cultural ambassador there
OD in 1979 has started to my study to
become a teacher and one of my subjects
was geography so I traveled I had a good
reason to travel all over Europe and I
also visited some communist countries
and I saw it with my own eyes the Iron
Curtain the human creation that divided
Europe for many many years I also was in
Poland in 1980 1981 when solid owners
came up for the Democratic right of the
Polish people it started there
and I was standing in a bus again
without air-conditioning for two hours
at checkpoint charlie waiting for
someone to come out and take a look at
passports one of my other subjects was
history and there I learned about the
Berlin Conference of 1884 1885
well the Western democracies of the
Western countries at that time or and
split up the African continent just
because of their interest to organize
things well for them many of you may
know that millions of people’s have died
due to the tribal wars which were caused
by these lines drawn on a paper on one
Sunday morning or afternoon and still on
a daily base people are dying or running
today because of these lines and what
about the Iron Curtain where is it now
this piece of concrete is a line of
concrete and steel except for some
pieces in the museum how many lives have
been spoiled spilled and destroyed it is
estimated that about 2,500 people have
died as a direct result of the Iron
Curtain
how much welfare and money has
evaporated because of this idea several
studies have shown that on the average
we estimate that only the unification of
unification of Germany has cost about
1600 billion euros not saying that we
shouldn’t reunify Germany but we could
have used this money if they hadn’t
started whether you are in curtain in a
far better way in the world the end of
the 80s was overwhelming to me as well
as for many people from my generation we
saw with our own eyes that people were
able to break down the most violent
I think borders we had ever seen Michael
Gorbachev did a good job in the former
Soviet Union the Polish people turned a
system into a democratic system and the
Germany was reunified the people in
tomash whare revolted again through
dictatorial regime hishaku and it was
1979 the time of Pink Floyd the war
imagine Oh 70 starting to study as a
teacher
[Music]
of control
[Applause]
I hope you can imagine I was 17 just
left my own diapers it was a little bit
disturbing for me and but let’s go back
to him
two to two borders maybe we can take a
closer look at or just a quick look at
the map of Europe in 1910 and 1930 and
2010 or maybe a little bit more
next-door province of Limburg can’t find
it
14th century oh there it is a little bit
different shape but it’s there that is
and this is how we know it now but we
don’t know especially off of the
previous speaker we don’t know what the
ball will look like in a hundred years
threat problem no absolutely not because
what happens with sight but scientific
research shows us is that the
inhabitants of the province of Limburg
have a high level of intercultural
competencies its logic because we had
Spanish influence we had French
influence we had German influence I
believe we even had some Dutch influence
we even created a system in which babies
need an ID card to travel across borders
wonderful and we raised the child the
children and you awareness that if you
lose this document you’re lost it gives
you an identity when you were abroad you
need it absolutely to be an a person and
identity when you’re abroad and don’t
forget it don’t lose it because you
don’t exist anymore in my opinion it
would be good if we would change borders
into frontiers both words are
translation of the Dutch word Kent’s
but a border for me is a limit it’s an
expression of interest of power mostly
by us as a result of self declared
serenity of national states a francha
offers a challenge a limit you want to
pass so I would like to raise and we’re
doing that at home raise children in the
context of frontiers because if we
succeed in changing from borders to
frontiers we will create a much better
world because the children will see the
border not as a limit where to stop but
to cross and go over and meet other
people learn about other cultures learn
different languages
broaden the horizon but we need some
change fundamental changes in thinking
in our thinking and I think the the the
most important group there is a group of
parents but it’s also the most complex
group because we have an enormous
variety in characteristics and
backgrounds of parents and thank God we
live in a democratic part of the world
for each and every parent has the
possibility to side decide within the
legal framework about the education of
his or her child a second possibility
would be a change in education and I
believe it’s still very complex but
that’s the same thing we should do
professor Karen Robinson stated in his
TED talk in February 2006 that the
Western educational system can be
determined as an industrial process
where we push young creative children
like on a production line through
classes based as he mentioned this year
of construction recognition is the only
relevant part
or aspects of intelligence and where the
average is the standard so it’s only
fitting scientifically for less than 1%
of our children the system we have
created and there are wonderful
initiatives for cracking the system but
the tendency still is and even more and
more of regulation and monitoring mostly
because politician politician
politicians want to have influence on
education in the name of the well
spending of public money you know what
they do is that they create a system in
which teachers are becoming more and
more administrators instead of coaches
of the learning students and students
pupils are benchmarked or over benchmark
towards the standard instead of to their
capabilities possibilities ambitions and
talents maybe maybe maybe we could take
an example from the people in eastern
Germany not to revolt again they and the
a core national government so absolutely
not but what they did is that they
changed their experience reality into a
desired reality and they did not only
change the system they changed their
lives they changed their future and they
changed the future of the children by
taking an active part or an active role
I was very lucky I am very lucky I had
the possibility to realize some of my
ideas in education most recently as the
chairman of an of the expert team for
Regional Education in the province of
Limburg a fantastic group of experts
were working on the internationalization
of Education we’re starting in primary
education and what do we do that will
bring children together we don’t
organize formal lessons we bring them
together in activities they’re dancing
together they’re singing together
cooking together making theater etc hey
you know what happens there is that
these young children filled in need
for communication they want to
communicate with the other children so
there is an internal motivation to learn
the foreign language and what we do is
to assist them there to help them not by
formal grammar lessons or literature or
whatever no help them to use the
language as a means of communication
about 40 schools and then work up is
participating in the schools about 2,000
young pupils young students annually in
secondary education we continue this
line by encouraging people young
students to participate in exchanges in
projects in physics etc and we encourage
them to improve their linguistic skills
in the neighbor languages especially for
German and French and we have one
pre-vocational location where students
are encouraged to in a massive way to
participate in international orientation
programs about 90% of the pupils leaving
school there are or have obtained a good
certificate certificates which is
worldwide recognized in German language
so it’s pre-vocational school up 10% of
the students there participate in
international job orientation programs
just like Tom for example Tom’s world
was his neighbourhood he’s working now
as a heavy-duty vehicle mechanic in
arkin at the ICR and he came there
because he did his job orientation there
the colleagues in the vocational and
higher education continued the programs
we have Erasmus programs visits exchange
programs etc etcetera so it’s it it’s a
very widespread package of activities
that we do and we encourage stew
to study abroad may I give you another
example before I go to my final
conclusions and Britt Britt is a girl
which is with but participating in one
of her job orientation programs and we
have tested her that she would be very
fitting to the profession of mechanical
engineer Britt is 16 years old says whoa
very nice thank you very much but I
would like to study fashion and design
in Utrecht okay but you know his
possibilities RIT as polite as she said
okay I give you the possibility to
convince me so I’ll do the work and she
took part in the job orientation she did
her work fantastically but at the end
presentation she said thank you very
much for all the opportunities that I’m
going to study fashion and design in
retract but but ladies and gentlemen
something must have happened something
must have touched her because Britt is
now second year student at the elevator
Harkin and mechanical engineering and
Business Economics so it has a result
okay
the possibilities are enormous for our
children if we could erase if it could
decrease these borders for example the
region of arkin has a lack of
professional cure and cure people in
2028 3,000 people please imagine that
these people would have an average
income per year of 35,000 euros which is
what I think required realistic if we
could provide those 3,000 professionals
within 10 years it would bring 100
million euros annually extra income to
our region and that excludes still the
multiplier the future generation is
waiting for us yes yes we are increasing
their linguistic competences we are
increasing their inter cultural
competences there and
noria competences and of course there is
an economic interest in this program yes
it is but on the other hand we are also
raising a generation of children was
able to experience the limits of borders
as challenges of frontiers who are able
to see what the strength of their will
of their mind and their activities is so
in a generation which will go abroad and
take their chances we are the generation
that has to help them that has to clean
or erase the borders in their minds we
owe them because we are also the
generation which created it or at least
conserved them and if we have to do it
and if we are the generation to help
them and let’s do it together
parents for the future of your children
decision-makers for the future Russia
region ladies and gentlemen
globalization is starting next door and
now let’s do it together I mean I hope
you are too
thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
you
[Music]
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