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Callie Maidhof, a student organizer told Liveweek.net, “Regardless of what one thinks about the events of last night, the minor vandalism that occurred cannot be viewed outside the context of the physical violence inflicted by police on student activists and the broader assault on public education.”

The scholarship model proposed by Schavan envisages that 10 percent of the best-qualified students receive a subsidy of €300 per month, irrespective of the income of their parents. The federal and state administrations are to provide half of the financing for this project, while the remaining 50 percent must be raised by the universities in direct collaboration with business interests. In the highly selective German education system, this scholarship model will invariably favour students from a middle class background and only intensify competition in the selection process. At the same time, the scholarship scheme enables companies and big business to deepen their involvement in the education process.

An understanding of how other people live. The future elite live in relatively closed societies, where hardly any of their fellow students have an unemployed father or parents who have immigrated from Turkey. In their lives, the other people – over whose lives they will later decide – are conspicuously absent.

It would be completely wrong, however, to believe that such goals can be achieved merely on the basis of protest. Students and workers are confronted not simply with a misguided educational policy, but rather with the deliberate restructuring of the education system in the interest of the profit system. This policy has been supported by all of the main political parties and implemented despite a series of protests and demonstrations by those affected.

Magnanti saysshe has no regrets about the 14 months she spent as a prostitute. "I've felt worse about my writing than I ever have about sex for money," she said.

But let's suppose the correlations are due to causation: good parenting makes good kids, and day-care makes for very slightly smarter, but also slightly less well-behaved kids. What does that tell us about whether or not to put kids in day care? On an individual basis, not much. A parent may be faced with a decision to put her child in day care or move to a cheaper house in a worse neighborhood.