us what they want and we do what they say is. needs doing. they tell us about the abuses. do you speak their languages? i speak the common language that they will all speak, which is spanish and portuguese in south america, and malay in indonesia and southeast asia. and nearly always, somebody will speak one of those languages. i can t learn all the indigenous languages, obviously, but it is they who tell us what the problem is and we interpret it in that way. i mean, for instance, in india at the moment, there are appalling factory schools where indigenous children are taken from the tribe and educated to be good little indians, and all their cultural traditions are taken away, they re beaten if they speak their own languages. it s just like what used to happen in canada and australia and is now all coming out. this appalling idea that you have to make everybody like us, and make them good little americans or good little indians. and that is one of the things we can expose.
i mean, for instance, in india at the moment, there are appalling factory schools where indigenous children are taken from the tribe and educated to be good little indians, and all their cultural traditions are taken away, they re beaten if they speak their own languages. it s just like what used to happen in canada and australia and is now all coming out. this appalling idea that you have to make everybody like us, and make them good little americans or good little indians. and that is one of the things we can expose. isn t the truth, though, that many of the tribes and the indigenous peoples that you have worked with over the years live in very difficult circumstances? they are, to our eyes, living in poverty. they re living with very difficult health conditions. their life expectancy is often much lower than we see in the industrialised, developed world. and isn t there a sense in which there are clear ways
us what they want and we do what they say is. needs doing. they tell us about the abuses. do you speak their languages? i speak the common language that they will all speak, which is spanish and portuguese in south america, and malay in indonesian and southeast asia. and nearly always, somebody will speak one of those languages. i can t learn all the indigenous languages, obviously, but it is they who tell us what the problem is and we interpret it in that way. i mean, for instance, in india at the moment, there are appalling factory schools where indigenous children are taken from the tribe and educated to be good little indians, and all their cultural traditions are taken away, they re beaten if they speak their own languages. it s just like what used to happen in canada and australia and is now all coming out. this appalling idea that you have to make everybody like us, and make them good little americans or good little indians. and that is, is one of the things we can expose. isn t
immediately. steve: dana this is like conservatives are school choice. my idea is like way it is interesting, i m a product of public schools, and there are many public schools that do very well. i m curious how this would work in rural america which is where i m from. have a free market solution exist with no government control and no government resources. steve: the voucher there, the resources are there. given to private companies to do the school system? that s the idea, and the real point here is that i think that the factory schools, the old-fashioned way of teaching kids isn t right for the new economy. by new innovation, by entrepreneurs setting up schools, some may be small, bigger, different experiments, you get the right kind of schools. in every other area we demand perfection. in education, they get more
immediately. steve: dana this is like conservatives are school choice. my idea is like way it is interesting, i m a product of public schools, and there are many public schools that do very well. i m curious how this would work in rural america which is where i m from. have a free market solution exist with no government control and no government resources. steve: the voucher there, the resources are there. given to private companies to do the school system? that s the idea, and the real point here is that i think that the factory schools, the old-fashioned way of teaching kids isn t right for the new economy. by new innovation, by entrepreneurs setting up schools, some may be small, bigger, different experiments, you get the right kind of schools. in every other area we demand perfection. in education, they get more