Teach ʹEm All

Teachers are expected to be the perfect role models: neatly dressed, well-mannered, broadly educated, and of course, fond of children? Not necessarily! Caro Blofeld, a high school teacher, has been devoted to heavy metal since her early youth and loves trivial literature, movies, series, and video games. Extensively tattooed and generally dressed in black, she stands out with her blunt, not always pedagogically correct manner. Her students appreciate her – and she often achieves more with them than others do. In her book, she demonstrates how to inspire students and effect change in our rigid school system in unconventional ways. Sometimes humorous, sometimes explicitly critical and provocative, always honest and with a good dose of self-irony, she shares stories from her constantly surprising, sometimes bizarre, and never boring professional life. Naturally, she also critiques entrenched teaching methods, overly ambitious parents, the German school system, and the civil service.