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The Lottery
1969 · Film · short · 19 min
Directed by Larry Yust
Every year, on June 27th, in a small village in New England, inhabited by no more than 300 people, a lottery is held in which a family is chosen as part of a ritual to ensure a good harvest.
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you are of course right but unfortunately good teachers don't scale.
my oldest is in 2nd grade Success Academy in brooklyn, they actually do lottery ( there is even a documentary about them on Netflix called the lottery)
in my view there is only one thing that allow kids to do well in school and that is parents who care.
once my son reaches 4th or 5th we are going to send him to a private school, cause thats when it starts to matter if they want to go the educational route.
to be honest though short of getting the most fundamental skills like reading and math and music i am kind of hoping he will just educate himself with things he care about his whole life.
there is something not very futureproof of sending your kid into an educational system that teaches everyone the same while expecing them to stand out.
i managed to do quite well for myself and i am mostly autodidact, but its hard to know if i was just lucky.
bottom line is you cant make the right decisions for your kids.
Anything that is not history, math, science, biology, etc.
In the 6-7-8th grade (at least here in California) there are a number of assigned books and lessons that teach (as best as I can describe it) "empathy". Which is great... but some of the books had a very strong viewpoint one way or the other that was persuasive but not always well rounded.
Personally when I was that age the "empathy" lessons were way better in middle school. They lasted a semester or two, we watched a movie called "The Lottery" where a village picked from a lottery to stone one person (I can't remember why, a good harvest I am not sure) but a mother was chosen and it was so ingrained in the children to stone the person her own children looked forward to the stoning and the mother tried to get the children to think "hey this is my own mother". Another lesson was the poem about when you let bad things happen to others, when bad things happen to you there will be no one left to speak up on your behalf (can't remember the title), and the third one was on cultural understanding if someone hundreds of years from now examines your house and get what is inside of it "wrong" (like assuming the toilet is a communication device you yell into, or toothbrushes (with hooks) were ear-rings) not to think badly of those people (and as such you may make the same mistakes when look at the lives of people you're not familiar with).
Good point. I was approaching from a view of mostly well off Americans who get annoyed when fer'ners show up and become more successful than they are. It's completely different when you consider people who don't even know how to do academic things well being placed against extreme cram school cultures.
See: waiting for superman, the lottery, a few Frontline specials about it, and mst3k episode 816.
As was said; See the movies The Lottery [1], The Cartel [2], and Waiting For "Superman" [3].
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[1]: http://thelotteryfilm.com/
[2]: http://www.thecartelmovie.com/
[3]: http://www.waitingforsuperman.com/
Old, yes; but you are correct it's not old in the sense that it's irrelevant.
See the movies The Lottery [1], The Cartel [2], and Waiting For "Superman" [3].
When reading that interview I saw Jobs as almost prescient.
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[1]: http://thelotteryfilm.com/
[2]: http://www.thecartelmovie.com/
[3]: http://www.waitingforsuperman.com/