by Ludwig Hasler*
(6 April 2022) What does it take for a country lad to study at the ETH Zurich, get a doctorate in biochemistry and successfully run a medical company? It takes good teachers, said Franz Käppeli.
by Carl Bossard,* Stans, Switzerland
(28 March 2022) Images are powerful. Teachers are particularly aware of this when talking to their pupils these days. Children and young people are directly confronted with the Ukraine conflict via YouTube, Tiktok and other social networks. Often they are on their own. They bring what they have seen into the classrooms. “Is war also coming to us?” they ask and want to know: “why is there such fighting?” At home, they often get no answers to their questions. Teachers and educators are the only contact persons for some children.
by Sabine Vuilleumier, M.D.
(10 February 2022) In April 2020, Australian scientists found that ivermectin, a drug on the “World Health Organisation” (WHO) essential medicines list, virtually halts the replication of Sars-CoV-2 coronaviruses in a test tube within 48 hours.1 – In mainstream media, one hears nothing of the positive research results published since then in the prophylactic and therapeutic use of ivermectin in combination with other beneficial drugs for Covid-19.
by Carl Bossard*
(7 February 2022) He was certainly a self-confident artist and knew he was skilled: the sculptor and master builder Erhart Küng (1420–1507). He came to Bern as a stonemason around 1455; soon he was responsible for the new construction of Bern Cathedral.
by Michael Felten
(29 January 2022) I first met him a quarter of a century ago: the left-liberal educationalist was about to retire and was beginning to challenge the educational zeitgeist; I was a common grammar school teacher who had gained his first routine and now found time to marvel at the errors and effects of reformist educational thinking in regular schools.