Welcome to the European Bildung Day
Bildungtainment Center 2020
Copied from the original website europeanbildung.net, which was closed down in May 2022.
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 survey and the quiz were open May 8th and May 9th during the European Bildung Day 2020 conference.
Please enjoy!
In Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Schuman Declaration
Survey About Ode an die Freude
Whenever I hear or sing Ode an die Freude, I:
- Have no clue what I am singing
- I feel very European
- I think it is really cool that we have a continental anthem about “Götterfunken” — what are they?
- We need an English version of the lyrics that people can actually sing
- Nooo! An English translation would be blasphemy against Schiller and Beethoven!
- Oh, I thought it was the tune by Charpentier that united Europe – my bad!
Meet Jeroen van der Most
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
The Schuman Declaration
Bildung Quiz
The classical Greek word for bildung is?
- Pandora
- Pandemia
- Paideia
Who was the first pedagogue to insist that education must relate to something the children understand?
- Cornelius
- Comenius
- Calorius
Often called ‘the father of modern pedagogy’, but gave his own five children to orphanages because he did not find himself fit as a father
- Comenius
- Rousseau
- Pestalozzi
A Swiss pedagogue who named his son Jean-Jacques after Rousseau
- Piaget
- Pestalozzi
- Helmuth Lotti
In Friedrich Schiller’s Ode an die Freude, an animal appears, which in Schiler’s time was interpreted as symbolizing the third estate of the feudal society; which animal?
- A worm
- A donkey
- A snail
Name a Dutch Renaissance painter:
Name a Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, or Swedish Renaissance painter
Corona Bildung
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?
Corona Aesthetics in English
Chinese Corona Aesthetics
European bildung goodies for which we can take absolutely no credit at all
EU loved by the British
Italian music loved by the Danes
The US loved by the Dutch
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 monsters quoting the Bible
Ukrainians 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