Like Humans - Then Education becomes a human right
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he events 500 years ago had direct consequences for human history up to the present. In retrospect, the decades following publication of the theses in Wittenberg and the translation of the bible, read like a fairytale in which all of mankind awoke from a thousand-year trance, like sleeping beauty.
opens in the Belgian town of Antwerp, reflecting the immediate trend towards greater wealth of the general people. In 1536, the medic Paracelsus publishes his bestseller “The great handbook of wound healing” (“Die große Wundarznei”), a textbook in the common language that influences medicine across Europe for centuries to come.
In 1521, the New Testament is published in the German language, followed shortly thereafter by the entire bible. Translations of the bible from unintelligible Latin into English, Dutch, French, Danish, Swedish and all other European languages, follow swiftly. Not only the spiritual life, but also education, science, trade, commerce, culture and all other areas of society benefit from liberation from illiteracy. In 1525, only four years after the first translation of the bible, the painter Albrecht Dürer publishes his first textbook on “Perspective Geometry” and another three years later, his “Anatomy of Man”, both in the spoken language. In 1529, Johannes Bugenhagen founds the Johanneum-Highschool in Hamburg, a first step towards general school education. In 1531, the first stock exchange
The Nuremberg painter Dürer (1471-1528) was a determined supporter of Luther and promoter of the New Time. 11
