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Module: Milieu einer Kindheit: Kindheit, Aetheraufsatz und Revolution

Sequence: 4.7. Biographie 22300: Michele Besso

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Sequence: Kinder Kindheit und Jugend

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Branching Point: What is the Nobel Prize?

Sequence: Kinder Kindheit und Jugend

Slide: Ugly baby, wonderful head!

Slide: Einstein's Mother

Slide: Einstein's Father

Slide: My Sister Maya

Slide: From Here to There with Electrical Engineering.

Slide: Why does the needle move? Magic?

Slide: What is a Compass?

Slide: Teachers, Beatings and Protests

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Slide: A Six in a School Report is Good!

Branching Point:

Sequence: Kinder Matura

Slide: Matura!

Slide: School? And Goodbye!

Slide: A House of Cards with 14 Stories...

Slide: Not Without my Violin!

Slide: And Later I will be a Physicist!

Branching Point: What is the Nobel Prize?

Sequence: Kinder Kindheit und Jugend

Slide: Ugly baby, wonderful head!

Slide: Einstein's Mother

Slide: Einstein's Father

Slide: My Sister Maya

Slide: From Here to There with Electrical Engineering.

Slide: Why does the needle move? Magic?

Slide: What is a Compass?

Slide: Teachers, Beatings and Protests

Slide:

Slide: A Six in a School Report is Good!

Branching Point:

Sequence: Kinder Matura

Slide: Matura!

Slide: School? And Goodbye!

Slide: A House of Cards with 14 Stories...

Slide: Not Without my Violin!

Slide: And Later I will be a Physicist!

Branching Point: What is the Nobel Prize?

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School? And Goodbye!

Albert Einstein looks a bit like this when he finishes school- Quite grown up, don't you think? By the way, there are only ten children in his final class and they are all boys. Going to school is not a matter of course for girls up to the level of the the German or Swiss university examination exams.

Girls are supposed to get married and care for the family - this was the view at the time. So they learn a lot of house economics, handiwork possibly even an instrument or foreign languages. Mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology are thought of as very "unwomanly". Girls don't have to know such things, people thought.

A few girls do not keep with this way of thinking and study these subjects anyway. This also includes the woman that Albert Einstein later marries.