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Education in Switzerland: The grammar school is overrated

Academic children finish their Matura more often than other young people. This is an expression of a lack of educational equity, say researchers, and thus reveal a fairly one-dimensional view of education.

The grammar school – in the picture a classroom of the Cantonal School Glarus – is not the only source of professional excellence.

Gian Ehrenzeller / Keystone

Would it seriously occur to anyone to portray a top chef as a victim of an unjust education system? An education system that continuously produces social inequality? That prefers the children of academics and puts obstacles in the way of others – as if there was no happiness, no prestige and no important positions beyond the high school diploma and university studies, but at best second-best solutions?

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