appZied to Swiss education. Had I known the troublesome and tearful turn that the efforts to co-ordinate schooling in Switzerland would take, I might have perhaps chosen another, more humourous subject to please my audience. Queer situations do not only happen on the stage or on the cinema screen : They happen in real life often enough. The choreography of the present school-ballet the Cantons are presently performing reminds one of Gottfried Keller, who knew what he was talking about when he

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... ote "die Leute von Selwylas" But to explain the present crisis and what it fundamently means for Switzerland, let us start at the beginning. We must first delimit our subject.