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By Lina Shoumarova June 23, 2022
Midway through the documentary Mr Bachmann and His Class , Dieter Bachmann, a teacher at the primary Georg Büchner School in Stadtallendorf, Germany, discusses his profession with a friend. Bachmann says that he resisted becoming a teacher at first because he had always felt alienated by the school as an institution. He constantly expected to be thrown out, he says, with laughter. He has thought about quitting, he admits, because of the feeling that “you can’t shape anything” and that you are fighting again