schooling the world
free viewing for month of oct 2014 here:
http://schoolingtheworld.org/stw2014/
founder/filmmaker – Carol Black.
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april 2016
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notes this time through (seen maybe a dozen times..?)
11 min – six thousand voices – wade davis – other peoples aren’t failed attempts at being you.. they are by defn unique facets of human imagination.. when asked meaning of being human – they respond with 6000 voices… – wade davis – @authorwadedavis
13 min – we forget we’re projecting something we made up… diff ways of knowing/being/learning.. really create diff human beings.. – wade
17 min – we moved from wisdom to knowledge & now from knowledge to info & that info is so partial that we are creating incomplete human beings.. – vandana – @drvandanashiva
24 min – list of stats below
26 min – when modern western ed is intro’d to traditional cultures around the world.. it creates a huge sense of inferiority... western urban consumer culture as progress as only way to be… children end up feeling that their way is backward/primitive/shameful – helena – @helenanhodge
27 min – inferiority at level of elders.. first response: i don’t know anything.. go talk to my son he’s a 10th grade pass.. that is always.. most painful things i’ve heard over and over in villages – manish
30 min – widely held belief that ed will raise people out of poverty.. but .. it’s the advent of colonialism/development/aide that have created poverty.. in pre development systems/econs.. you will not find kind of poverty you find in modern slums… people are led to believe the future is this modern urban consumer culture. and they are going into debt..selling houses to give child an ed… great hope is they’ll get good job as dr/engineer… less than 10% are succeeding… – helena
31 min – an institution that is branding millions/millions as failures.. people concerned w/social justice can’t see huge social hierarchy created through ed.. and people who are branded as failure.. have wide variety of capacity to think in diff ways.. that’s being suppressed/lost… one dimensional thinkers being rewarded..- manish
33 min – semi entry to another system… inbetween people.. falling through cracks of an inbetween world – vandana
35 min – on tourists.. falling in love with the people (of ladakh) – remarking on how happy they are.. – and then wanting to help them… bringing in western et al – – out of good heartedness… helena
41 min – just after money money money
42 min – on 6000 languages.. now not being taught to children..
44 min – i miss my mom (girl)… i miss my hometown (guy)… ladakh is heavenly.. i miss it too much.. because home is home.. right..
46 min – on how we’ll look back and wonder how we could have done this – manish
57 min – wade on culture..
whoa.
59 min – greater threats from those w good intentions – wade
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https://www.facebook.com/schoolingtheworld/posts/10152322975349858
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sept 2014:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/17/high-school-students-first-amendment-adults-poll
posted on fb by carol
STATISTICS USED IN THE FILM
16,000,000 U.S. children suffer from depression and other emotional problems
1,600,000 are currently on 2 or more psychiatric drugs
69,000 girls between 13 and 19 regularly cut themselves
78 U.S. children have been killed or wounded in school shootings in the past 8 years
120,000 have tried to kill themselves in the past 12 months
55.5% of U.S. high school students believe the government should not be able to censor newspapers
32.5% believe the government should censor newspapers
12% don’t know
Percentage of American public school students who FAIL TO GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL:
New Orleans 46.6%
Detroit 78.3%
Dallas 53.7%
Pittsburgh 35.9%
New York City 61.1%
Kansas City 54.3%
Atlanta 54%
Chicago 47.8%
Los Angeles 55.8%
15,500,000 U.S. children live in poverty
QUOTATIONS USED IN THE FILM:
“Let all that is Indian within you die.”
– Carlisle Indian School commencement speech
“Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw materials – children – are to be
shaped and fashioned into products… The specifications for manufacturing come from
the demands of 20th century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its
pupils according to the specifications laid down.”
– Ellwood P. Cubberly, Dean,
Stanford University School of Education, 1898
“In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands.”
– John D. Rockefeller, General Education Board, 1906
“As the mass of population are uneducated, illiterate, they will remain backward, and
follow old and religious superstitions.”
– Ladakhi economics textbook
“As majority of people are illitrate (sic) and backward, their standard of living is low as
compared to their counterparts who are well educated and advanced.”
– Ladakhi economics textbook
“You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of
education that is not a system of indoctrination…. What you are being taught here is an
amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest
look at history will show how impermanent these must be.”
– Doris Lessing, 2007 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature
“The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places. It is to
master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the
power to withdraw from the external world.”
– William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education 1889-1906
“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not
yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from
stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.”
– Albert Einstein
“Education…makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Real freedom will come only when we free ourselves of the domination of Western
education, Western culture, and the Western way of living.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Education is a compulsory, forcible action of one person upon another. Culture is the
free relation of people…
..The difference between education 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
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august 2014:
a thousand rivers
http://schoolingtheworld.org/a-thousand-rivers/
This is when it occurred to me: people today do not even know what children are actually like. They only know what children are like in schools.
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rethinking modern school – 2 min clip – w Manish and Helena..
http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/rethinking-modern-schooling/
primary vehicle for destructive model of globalization – education – devalues knowledge/wisdom/relationships w/in communities – Manish
destroying knowledge systems that were linked to more sustainable economies.. undermining the culture – Helena
training our kids for an unsustainable economy – Helena
- recommend to read the long haul – about Myles Horton
- my school my rights – https://www.myschoolmyrights.com/
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interpretation ness
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More1/ If the primary purpose of school was education, the Internet should obsolete it. But school is mainly about credentialing.
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from Paul J Rosch page:
The renowned medical missionary, Dr. Albert Schweizer, wrote “on my arrival in Gabon in 1913, I was astonished to find no cases of cancer”, over the years, cases began to appear in growing numbers, and he concluded “my observations incline me to attribute this to the fact that the natives are living more and more after the manner of the whites”.
schooling the world ness
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jason on schooling the world ness
Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) tweeted at 9:30 AM – 13 Jan 2020 :
Economists call them “underdeveloped countries”, but this is a misnomer that obscures the power relations that have produced this condition. A more accurate term would be “historically plundered countries”. (http://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1216759309943459840?s=17)
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virus noticings. . things supposedly impossible:
Carol Black (@cblack__) tweeted at 11:47 AM on Thu, Apr 16, 2020:
Read the replies. So many.
(https://twitter.com/cblack__/status/1250843188660596736?s=03)
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be you. 