If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a better life for indigenous children. But is this true? What really happens when we replace a traditional cultures way of learning and understanding the world with our own? Schooling the World: The White Mans Last Burden takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately deeply disturbing look at the effects of modern education on the worlds last sustainable indigenous cultures. Generations from now, well look back and say, How could we have done this kind of thing to people?
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:50:59 +0000
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