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The
film Schooling the World looks at the
role played by modern education in the destruction of the world’s indigenous
cultures. It examines the hidden assumption of cultural superiority behind
education aid projects, which overtly aim to help children “escape” to a
“better life.” It looks at the failure
of institutional education to deliver on its promise of a way out of poverty in
the United States
as well as in the so-called “developing” world. It questions notions of wealth
and poverty, knowledge and ignorance, as it uncovers the role of schools in the
destruction of traditional sustainable agricultural and ecological knowledge,
in the breakup of extended families and communities, and in the devaluation of
ancient spiritual traditions.
The
film calls for a “deeper dialogue” between cultures, suggesting that we have at
least as much to learn as we have to teach, and that these ancient sustainable
societies may harbor knowledge which is vital for our own survival in the
coming millennia.
Shot
in Ladakh, the film weaves the voices of Ladakhis with conversation between
four thinkers: anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis, a National
Geographic Explorer-in-Residence; Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, and
Manish Jain, a former architect of education programs with UNESCO, USAID, and
the World Bank.
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