History of compulsory schooling

This ultra short documentary explains the history of compulsory schooling and advocates choice in education.

It starts 200 years back with Prussian absolutism. There, under the regime of a dictatorship, compulsory schooling was invented and implemented on a massive scale.

It continues to show how educators such as Maria Montessori, Célestin Freinet, Peter Petersen and Rudolf Steiner had a hard time challenging their governments ideas on education.

I made this micromentary to rise awareness about the true origins of our school system. It is also a call for action, to liberate ourselves from this outdated and harmful institution. Our society is changing ever faster, we no longer need a bureaucratic school system. We need learning environments that are way more open and flexible. We need choice in education.

Let me know if you like it, and if so help us spread the word!

PS At motionbox you can find the video with the music totally in sync: http://www.motionbox.com/video/player/0692d7b7181a8c#1

PPS The music is 'O Fortuna' from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. I didn't know at first but it appears that there could be no more suitable piece of music to go with the content of the video: it was written in Nazi Germany during the war.

Someone was so kind to translate this text in Portugese:

"Este curto documentário explica a história da escolaridade obrigatória e advoga a liberdade de escolha na educação. A escolaridade obrigatória começou há 200 anos atrás com o regime absoluto Prussiano. Ai, sob uma ditadura, a escolaridade obrigatória foi inventada e implementada em escala maciça. Educadores tais como a Maria Montessori, o Célestin Freinet, o Peter Petersen e Rudolf Steiner desafiaram as idéias dos governos sobre a instrução.

Eu fiz este video para a tomada de consciência das pessoas sobre as verdadeiras origens do nosso sistema escolar. É também uma chamada para a acção, para a liberação desta instituição decadente e prejudicial. A nossa sociedade está a mudar cada vez mais rapidamente, e já não precisamos de um sistema escolar burocrático. Precisamos de ambientes mais abertos e flexíveis e de escolha no processo da aprendizagem. "

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• schooling
• compulsory
• education
• gatto
• montessori
• state
• government
• prussia

[Shehasnomorals]

The restriction of true freedom will continue as the plan to move into a collective continues.

[vgman94]

Compulsory education is insane. First of all, it restricts a person and child's choice to do what they wish. Second, they can't always choose to learn what they want to. Third, they're taken in way too soon. Fourth, the more it continues, the more it becomes a hivemind of people pushing the idea that education is effective and calling those who fail or do not wish to go "stupid." Compulsory education is part of why we have so many massive problems here today.

[davepaintify]

cheers cunt

you have used and abused one of history's greatest songs....

[havidol1]

I think the quality of the responses here demonstrate the need for more compulsory education! It might be worth your time to actually pick up a reputable book that provides a historical rather than theoretical or ideological account of compulsory education. Compulsory education also took children out of the hands of profit-seeking industrialists and into the hands of the state that would protect them from industrial and parental exploitation and ignorance. It is a bedrock of liberal civility.

[sfiorare]

@Cherybloss17 - it's hyperbole

[Cherybloss17]

@sfiorare why?

[sfiorare]

this video is the stupidest bullshit ever

[Shehasnomorals]

@cacowninja: Are YOU gonna stop saying the same thing over and over? You're a slave that wants someone ELSE to do something about YOUR LIFE. Freedom of one's mind can only be obtained via individual choice. Stop flaming this video and attempting to keep men trapped in a hive mind mentality with women and the government.

[Cacowninja]

@vgman94 Are you gonna do something about it?

[Cacowninja]

@Shehasnomorals Are you gonna do something about it?

[xander7ful]

I lived what Frank Zappa was advocating. At the start of my senior year (high school), I couldn't take the system anymore. So I skipped some classes that I didn't excel in anyway. I'd go to the school library and spend hours there reading books that interested me and reading old (WWII and 1950s) magazines hidden high up in the stacks. I LOVED it and I even used one book on psycho-linguistics as the basis of a presentation I had to give in Psychology class. Best thing I ever did.

[justaman6972]

"Know your enemy! Yes I know my enemy,they're the teachers who taught me to fight me,comprimise,conformity,assim­ilation,submission,ingorance,h­ipocracy,brutality,the elite, all of which are American dreams!"BAND- Rage Against the Machine Album-Self Title, Track- Know Your Enemy. All of us experienced this in school settings and to be creative was to be considered a disruption and in need of medicating,corporal punsihment,isolation,accepted bullying,& the first cuts are in the arts! Fuck em!