Wednesday, December 15, 2010

schooling the world

These peoples, these cultures, are not failed attempts at being us — they are unique answers to the fundamental question, ‘What does it mean to be human and alive?’  - wade davis


We’ve moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we’re moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we’re creating incomplete human beings.”  - vandana shiva

There is an assumption that western education, western knowledge, is something that is superior… there is an idea that we have evolved to a higher level of being, and that these people, however lovely they are, they’re going to benefit from this superior knowledge.”   - helena norberg-hodge

One of the things that is most disturbing to me — on a level of justice and morality — is that you have an institution that is in place globally that is labelling millions and millions of innocent people as failures.”   - manish jain

Traditionally we raised our children according to the teachings of the Buddha.  Now, with development, everyone sends their children to school.  Now they all think, ‘I want to be a doctor, I want to be an engineer.’ The traditional ways of kindness, compassion, and helping one another are slowly dying out.”  - dolma tsering  


Schooling the World:  The White Man's Last Burden trailer from lost people films on Vimeo.

via schooling the world

To download the film, click on the following link or copy and paste into your browser: https://www.yousendit.com/download/dklvdFdmYWIwZ214dnc9PQ

To view the trailer and other information about the film on our website, please visit http://schoolingtheworld.org.

Please feel free to pass this along if you think that folks might be interested.
 
esp like wade at 11:40 and again at 41:30 (girl saying.. it's all about money)
 
education is a compulsory, forcible action of one person on another. culture is the free relation of people. the difference of ed and culture lies only in the compulsion, which education deems itself in the right to exert. education is culture under restraint. culture is free.  leo tolstoy

all the industries say nothing about quality of life.. they say.... per capita income


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