Mountainfilm In Telluride

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quotes from the film:

Schooling the World

"School forcibly snatches away children from a world full of God's own handiwork...

...It is a mere method of discipline which refuses to take into account the individual...

...a manufactory for grinding out uniform results.

I was not a creation of the schoolmaster:

the Government Board of Education was not consulted when I took birth in the world."

-- Rabindranath Tagore,
1927 Nobel Prize winner for Poetry



"A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another:

and as the mold in which it cats them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government...

... it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body."

John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"



"Education...makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."

--Henry David Thoreau