Bertrand Stern (born 11 November 1948) is a German author and philosopher living in Siegburg.
[1][2][3] He focuses on issues critical to civilization with regard to human dignity, in particular the outbreak from the school ideology and aspects of free education, as well as questions about medicine and health, money and work, and transport and mobility.
[7] He initiated the feature film CaRabA #LebenohneSchule, which was released on 9 May 2019 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland,[8] and introduces unschooled, free-educated people.
[9] Stern is against the Schulpflicht (a German law forcing young people to go to a school).
He sees it as a fundamental human right to be able to educate oneself freely, which is violated by compulsory schooling and criticizes the schooling ideology in his books and publications,[10] which he describes as "inhuman" ("inhuman"), "verfassungswidrig" ("unconstitutional") and "obsolet" ("obsolete") and has "[...] überhaupt keinen Platz mehr in unserer Wirklichkeit" "[...] no longer any place in our reality".