Interview with Salomé Voegelin

Salomé Voegelin has been interviewed by Music Journalism Insider:

“I want to advocate for a sonic and thus a plural and embodied education at every level, but particularly in primary school. I hated primary school, I did not fit in, got bad marks and had to repeat a class. Now in hindsight I know this is not because I was stupid but because primary education at least in 70s Switzerland, did not make space for children but moulded them. There is no room for plurality and possibility, and I failed, not at being enthusiastic and open to learning, but at being receptive to this educational norm. For example, I did not understand why girls had two hours more class every week than boys, just to learn needle work, so I just did not go. What did not make sense I could not engage in.”

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