ABSTRACT

This chapter offers a brief biography of Willi Schohaus (1897–1981), Swiss educator, and director of the Thurgau Teacher Seminar in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. The chapter discusses and summarizes his book titled: The Dark Places of Education: With a Collection of Seventy-Eight Reports of School Experiences (1932/2012). The chapter offers critical reception of the text as well as original illustrations from the Swiss magazine Schweizer-Spiegel that depicts the call for responses to the question: “From what did you suffer most in school?” Also presented are results of his survey of suffering in schools from that time.