THE BEAUTIFUL TREE
by Dharampal (Preface) by DHARAMPAL (Author) · first published 2021
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Documents the pre-colonial Indian indigenous education system and how British policy uprooted it; often recommended alongside work on low-cost private schooling and the role of the state in education.
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…dismantling of traditional education systems and disenfranchisement of temples which was the support structure of the society was common in territories under direct British control. https://www.amazon.in/BEAUTIFUL-TREE-DHARAMPAL/dp/8175310952 Documents in detail the uprooting of the Indian education system and substitution of elitist English education.
on “The Indian state of Kerala has a communist government and India's highest HDI” ↗If you want a good book on the subject, check out the Beautiful Tree - http://www.amazon.com/The-Beautiful-Tree-Educating-Themsleve...
on “The $1-a-week school” ↗If you want to read more about this, please look at the 11th chapter of James Tooley's book https://www.amazon.in/Beautiful-Tree-James-Tooley/dp/0670083... on "the uprooting of the Beautiful Tree". Tooley was researching low cost private schools in different parts of Asia and Africa. He follows up the references in Dharampal in…
on “Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts” ↗…Communist Manifesto - Marx * Socialism - von Mises * Just One Child - Greenhalgh * The God That Failed - Crossman * Death by Government - Rummel Thought-provoking: * Free to Learn - Gray * The Beautiful Tree - Tooley * Education and the State - West * The Machinery of Freedom - Friedman * Against Intellectual Monopoly - Boldrine & Levine * From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State - Beito * The Not So Wild,…
on “Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?” ↗"The Beautiful Tree: a personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves" by James Tooley. It's a very interesting book about low-cost private education.
on “Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?” ↗…below them who predominated in the thousands of the then still-existing schools in practically each of these areas https://www.indica.today/reviews/dharampals-the-beautiful-tr... https://www.amazon.in/BEAUTIFUL-TREE-DHARAMPAL/dp/8175310952
on “An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve” ↗Education statistics were compiled in the British era, and these were referenced by Dharampal in his book 'The Beautiful Tree' which records the extensive education present in South India. Like a lot of claims, this doesnt stand up. Nor does the claim of 'caste system started in colonial era' make sense. Aside: For people…
on “Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts” ↗…and this rabble-rousing pamphlet is no different. Little wonder that he was supported by the British, much as they did the Dravidian movt. and the Muslim league on the eve of "Independence". [1.] The Beautiful Tree - Dharampal. https://archive.org/details/DharampalCollectedWritingsIn5Vol... (The original British surveys on Indian education from the 18th century are on archive.org somewhere; you should be able…
on “McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality” ↗