Special Two-Film Event:
The Economics of Happiness and Schooling the World
6:30 pm
Thursday, March 22nd
Marsh Arts Center, Berkeley, California
Featuring a post-film discussion with directors Helena Norberg-Hodge and Carol Black, as well as speakers from the film, Manish Jain and Gustavo Esteva
About Schooling the World:
All over the world, volunteers build schools in traditional societies, convinced that school is the only way to a 'better' life for the world’s children. But is this true? What really happens when we replace a traditional culture's local knowledge with modern education?
Beautifully shot in Ladakh, India, Schooling the World weaves the voices of Ladakhi people through a conversation between original thinkers Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, Wade Davis, and Manish Jain to create a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately disturbing look at the “human monoculture” of modern schooling. In the end, the film opens a wider vision of the world we might create through a “deeper dialogue” with these ancient sustainable societies in which we realize we have at least as much to learn as we have to teach. http://schoolingtheworld.org
An impeccable and gorgeous piece of work.... It shook me awake.
~ Joanna Macy
Every teacher and prospective teacher should watch and discuss "Schooling the World."
~ Bill Bigelow, Rethinking Schools
Powerful, effective, direct, clear... and at the same time poetic, subtle, delicate, tender.
~ Gustavo Esteva, education activist and co-founder, Universidad de la Tierra."
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