Mind-altering documentary that questions what a western education provides to children in indigenous cultures around the world. A big picture gut-check as to the uses and abuses of education: in the U.S., are we educating kids in the US to empower them, or making them more passively accept certain kinds of futures?
Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden trailer
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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….
