Sandra Dodd

I’m working on an article for the German magazine Unerzogen (which probably has an umlaut or something in there somewhere, but it’s not in my head), and there’s something I want to use, but it won’t work as it is.

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"Respect" is not a light thing. It's not easy to respect your child, when it's new to you. There will be people encouraging you to see your child as "just a kid," and "only a child." Think of adults you respect, and think of them as ten years old, four years old, two, newborn. They were those people from birth. There was a newborn Mohandas Gandhi; a four-year-old Abraham Lincoln; an eight-year-old Oprah Winfrey, a twelve-year-old Winston Churchill.
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They might care about Gandhi, but those other three, probably not.

What are some possibilities?

It should be four people who are respected and not all in the same field or in the same way, and people from different time periods (or not all from the same days, anyway).

The same list might not even work in Austalia or Canada or the UK or India so it’s not just language. But I’m not doing a full range of particulars, just might want to use it to be translated into German, with examples that would work in and around Germany.

“It won’t work” might end up being the answer, but I thought it might be a fun puzzle for some of you. :-)

Sandra

Tress Miles

Would Nelson Mandela work as one of the four people?
Tress Miles

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Sandra Dodd Sandra@... [AlwaysLearning] <[email protected]> wrote:
 

I’m working on an article for the German magazine Unerzogen (which probably has an umlaut or something in there somewhere, but it’s not in my head), and there’s something I want to use, but it won’t work as it is.

_____

"Respect" is not a light thing. It's not easy to respect your child, when it's new to you. There will be people encouraging you to see your child as "just a kid," and "only a child." Think of adults you respect, and think of them as ten years old, four years old, two, newborn. They were those people from birth. There was a newborn Mohandas Gandhi; a four-year-old Abraham Lincoln; an eight-year-old Oprah Winfrey, a twelve-year-old Winston Churchill.
________

They might care about Gandhi, but those other three, probably not.

What are some possibilities?

It should be four people who are respected and not all in the same field or in the same way, and people from different time periods (or not all from the same days, anyway).

The same list might not even work in Austalia or Canada or the UK or India so it’s not just language. But I’m not doing a full range of particulars, just might want to use it to be translated into German, with examples that would work in and around Germany.

“It won’t work” might end up being the answer, but I thought it might be a fun puzzle for some of you. :-)

Sandra


Tress Miles

Also, Charles DeGaulle, Marie Curie, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Tress Miles

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Sandra Dodd Sandra@... [AlwaysLearning] <[email protected]> wrote:
 

I’m working on an article for the German magazine Unerzogen (which probably has an umlaut or something in there somewhere, but it’s not in my head), and there’s something I want to use, but it won’t work as it is.

_____

"Respect" is not a light thing. It's not easy to respect your child, when it's new to you. There will be people encouraging you to see your child as "just a kid," and "only a child." Think of adults you respect, and think of them as ten years old, four years old, two, newborn. They were those people from birth. There was a newborn Mohandas Gandhi; a four-year-old Abraham Lincoln; an eight-year-old Oprah Winfrey, a twelve-year-old Winston Churchill.
________

They might care about Gandhi, but those other three, probably not.

What are some possibilities?

It should be four people who are respected and not all in the same field or in the same way, and people from different time periods (or not all from the same days, anyway).

The same list might not even work in Austalia or Canada or the UK or India so it’s not just language. But I’m not doing a full range of particulars, just might want to use it to be translated into German, with examples that would work in and around Germany.

“It won’t work” might end up being the answer, but I thought it might be a fun puzzle for some of you. :-)

Sandra


Tress Miles

Maria Montessori
Golda Meir

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Sandra Dodd Sandra@... [AlwaysLearning] <[email protected]> wrote:
 

I’m working on an article for the German magazine Unerzogen (which probably has an umlaut or something in there somewhere, but it’s not in my head), and there’s something I want to use, but it won’t work as it is.

_____

"Respect" is not a light thing. It's not easy to respect your child, when it's new to you. There will be people encouraging you to see your child as "just a kid," and "only a child." Think of adults you respect, and think of them as ten years old, four years old, two, newborn. They were those people from birth. There was a newborn Mohandas Gandhi; a four-year-old Abraham Lincoln; an eight-year-old Oprah Winfrey, a twelve-year-old Winston Churchill.
________

They might care about Gandhi, but those other three, probably not.

What are some possibilities?

It should be four people who are respected and not all in the same field or in the same way, and people from different time periods (or not all from the same days, anyway).

The same list might not even work in Austalia or Canada or the UK or India so it’s not just language. But I’m not doing a full range of particulars, just might want to use it to be translated into German, with examples that would work in and around Germany.

“It won’t work” might end up being the answer, but I thought it might be a fun puzzle for some of you. :-)

Sandra


chris ester

Angela Merkel?
Bismarck?
Queen Elizabeth II ? 


We have plumbed the depths of my knowledge of German culture....  and I thought that since Queen Elizabeth is now the longest serving monarch (at least in Europe), she would have validity. 
chris

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Sandra Dodd Sandra@... [AlwaysLearning] <[email protected]> wrote:
 

I’m working on an article for the German magazine Unerzogen (which probably has an umlaut or something in there somewhere, but it’s not in my head), and there’s something I want to use, but it won’t work as it is.

_____

"Respect" is not a light thing. It's not easy to respect your child, when it's new to you. There will be people encouraging you to see your child as "just a kid," and "only a child." Think of adults you respect, and think of them as ten years old, four years old, two, newborn. They were those people from birth. There was a newborn Mohandas Gandhi; a four-year-old Abraham Lincoln; an eight-year-old Oprah Winfrey, a twelve-year-old Winston Churchill.
________

They might care about Gandhi, but those other three, probably not.

What are some possibilities?

It should be four people who are respected and not all in the same field or in the same way, and people from different time periods (or not all from the same days, anyway).

The same list might not even work in Austalia or Canada or the UK or India so it’s not just language. But I’m not doing a full range of particulars, just might want to use it to be translated into German, with examples that would work in and around Germany.

“It won’t work” might end up being the answer, but I thought it might be a fun puzzle for some of you. :-)

Sandra


Sandra Dodd

-=-Queen Elizabeth II ? -=-

Even when she was little, she was of that royal family, though.
They didn’t expect her dad to become king, but still… :-)

What about a football player Germans like? Or do they have a popular Olympian people know by face and name?

Tress Miles

German  athletes:  Katarina Witt, Boris Becker

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Sandra Dodd Sandra@... [AlwaysLearning] <[email protected]> wrote:
 

-=-Queen Elizabeth II ? -=-

Even when she was little, she was of that royal family, though.
They didn’t expect her dad to become king, but still… :-)

What about a football player Germans like? Or do they have a popular Olympian people know by face and name?


Tara L Dary

Boris Becker is in hot water....
Madame Curie, Albert Einstein
Churchill would command more respect, even in Germany, than a monarch.
Kofi Annan
Nelson Mandela
Helmut Kohl died recently
Korbachev is still widely respected, as is Vaclav Havel

On Nov 17, 2017 4:22 PM, "Tress Miles milesdt@... [AlwaysLearning]" <[email protected]> wrote:
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Claire Surname

My first thought is Anne Frank - though she was a child people have enormous respect for (died at 15) also the German head of state(Chancellor of Germany) Angela Merkel

Christine Goyette

Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Albert Einstein
Martin Luther

Dalaina Lama ( I know not German but he's pretty well known and respected there)

Sent from my iPad

On Nov 17, 2017, at 3:22 PM, Tress Miles milesdt@... [AlwaysLearning] <[email protected]> wrote:

 

German  athletes:  Katarina Witt, Boris Becker

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Sandra Dodd Sandra@... [AlwaysLearning] <[email protected]> wrote:
 

-=-Queen Elizabeth II ? -=-

Even when she was little, she was of that royal family, though.
They didn’t expect her dad to become king, but still… :-)

What about a football player Germans like? Or do they have a popular Olympian people know by face and name?


Megan Hills

A friend of mine is German and she often refers to Einstein with German pride. I’ve read so much about him. I would have loved to interview him at 8-12. He still didn’t have appreciation for his violin’s necessity at this point, but I”d love to hear what he thought of it. I always think of a young 5-7 Beethoven and a teenage Kepler(familial witchcraft accusations) for their German roots. Possibly Nietzsche too at 12? Wow! I’d love to ask him questions. 

Hope that helps.

On Nov 17, 2017, at 5:22 PM, Tress Miles milesdt@... [AlwaysLearning] <[email protected]> wrote:


German  athletes:  Katarina Witt, Boris Becker

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Sandra Dodd Sandra@... [AlwaysLearning] <[email protected]> wrote:
 

-=-Queen Elizabeth II ? -=-

Even when she was little, she was of that royal family, though. 
They didn’t expect her dad to become king, but still… :-)

What about a football player Germans like? Or do they have a popular Olympian people know by face and name?




reneehutch

How about a famous composer? Artist? 

Renee