CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL

“To civilize the Indians…immerse them in our civilization… and when we get them
under…hold them there until they are thoroughly soaked.” – General Richard Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Indian School

“Let all that is Indian within you die.” – Carlisle Indian School commencement speech

'SCHOOL BEGINS'

“SCHOOL BEGINS”

UNCLE SAM (to his new class in Civilization) –– Now, children, you’ve got to learn these lessons whether you want to or not! But just take a look at the class ahead of you, and remember that, in a little while, you will feel as glad to be here as they are! (Puck Magazine, 1899)

AMERICAN PROGRESS

The painting above, called “American Progress” (John Gast, 1872), shows a white woman drifting across the plains of the American West. White settlers, trains, and telegraph wires follow her; Indians and wild animals flee. On her forehead she wears the star of Empire; in her right hand she carries a school book.

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SCHOOLING THE WORLD

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DISCUSSION GUIDE
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“You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination…. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be.”

– Doris Lessing, 2007 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature