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DESCRIPTION:Free documentary screenings the 4th Tuesday of each month.\n\nIf you wanted 
 to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it?\n\nYou 
 would change the way it educates its children.\n\nThe 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.\n\nBut is this true?  What 
 really happens when we replace a traditional culture’s canon of knowledge 
 with our own?  Does life really get better for its people?\n\nSCHOOLING THE 
 WORLD takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately deeply troubling 
 look at the role played by modern education in the destruction of the 
 world’s last sustainable indigenous cultures.\n\nBeautifully shot on 
 location in the Buddhist culture of Ladakh in the northern Indian 
 Himalayas, the film weaves the voices of Ladakhi people through a 
 conversation between four carefully chosen original thinkers; 
 anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis,  a National Geographic 
 Explorer-in-Residence; Helena Norberg-Hodge and Vandana Shiva, both 
 recipients of the Right Livelihood Award for their work with traditional 
 peoples in India; and Manish Jain, a former architect of education programs 
 with UNESCO,  USAID, and the World Bank.\n\nIt  examines the hidden 
 assumption of cultural superiority behind education aid projects, which 
 overtly aim to help children “escape” to a “better life.”\n\nIt 
 looks at the failure of institutional education to deliver on its promise 
 of a way out of poverty – here in the United States as well as in the 
 so-called “developing” world.\n\nAnd it questions our very definitions 
 of wealth and poverty – and of 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.\n\nFinally, SCHOOLING THE WORLD 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 
 millenia.\n\nhttp://schoolingtheworld.org/ \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/30/18739115.php
SUMMARY:Film: Schooling the World, the White Man's Last Burden
LOCATION:909 12th Street, Sacramento
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/30/18739115.php
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