Margarete Hentze

Margarete Hentze is an artist and filmmaker. She is the director of Doing Nothing All Day, a film about the democratic education movement.

"In democratic schools I haven't seen any bullying at all."

"All the problems in education you can relate back to the coercion in schools. To me the forcing of children is really against the rights of the child."

By Margarete Hentze and Peter Hartkamp

/ 15 Nov 2016

So what is the purpose of education?

"After a year, in the fall of 2013, I wanted to investigate the possibility of working towards being Minister of Education." Simone Haenen told her story at the World Forum for Democracy 2016.

By Simone Haenen and Margarete Hentze

/ 15 Nov 2016

"If democracy is going to work, it's got to be practised in school as well as talked about."

Derry Hannam in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Margarete Hentze at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.

By Derry Hannam and Margarete Hentze

/ 14 Nov 2016