Flaws in non Western Education
What is true and untrue differ from every part of the world you are located in. Earth and everything around in behaves in a certain manner depending on wether you are up North or down South. Looking at what Okakok had mentioned about what are true facts in the Western world, happen to be extremely untrue in the North. This is all the result of the difference in the climates, location, their values and their living conditions.
As many know who had passed Geography in elementary school, the weather doesn't behave the same in every part of the world. That is due to the Earth and Sun's rotation. We all have grown to know that the Sun rides in the East and set in the West, but that "fact" doesn't apply to the rest of the world. This had been one of the examples that was taught to Inupiaq children, and the knowledge of a fact that isn't necessarily true due to their location was a determination of how educated they were. Where they are from the Suns location and time of setting and/or rising varied. Depending on the season the Sun would behave in a different manner, " 1) it didn't rise at all; 2) it peeks through the horizon for a few minutes; 3) it rises in the South and sets in the South a few minutes later; 4) it rises in the East and sets in the West; 5) it rises in the North and sets in the North almost twenty-four hours later; 6)i doesn't set at all" -Kisautaq Leona Okakok (78). This is why children were thought to be uneducated, during school they would be questioned on this subject and would reply be asking what time of the year it was in response, or with a different answer due to the season they would be considered wrong, even though the children had been brought up to know the true facts about their home land.
This may differ from culture to culture, or family to family, but everyone has different values. Each person carries their own beliefs and acts a certain way. A good example that was mentioned in Okakok's article said, in the western world
As many know who had passed Geography in elementary school, the weather doesn't behave the same in every part of the world. That is due to the Earth and Sun's rotation. We all have grown to know that the Sun rides in the East and set in the West, but that "fact" doesn't apply to the rest of the world. This had been one of the examples that was taught to Inupiaq children, and the knowledge of a fact that isn't necessarily true due to their location was a determination of how educated they were. Where they are from the Suns location and time of setting and/or rising varied. Depending on the season the Sun would behave in a different manner, " 1) it didn't rise at all; 2) it peeks through the horizon for a few minutes; 3) it rises in the South and sets in the South a few minutes later; 4) it rises in the East and sets in the West; 5) it rises in the North and sets in the North almost twenty-four hours later; 6)i doesn't set at all" -Kisautaq Leona Okakok (78). This is why children were thought to be uneducated, during school they would be questioned on this subject and would reply be asking what time of the year it was in response, or with a different answer due to the season they would be considered wrong, even though the children had been brought up to know the true facts about their home land.
This may differ from culture to culture, or family to family, but everyone has different values. Each person carries their own beliefs and acts a certain way. A good example that was mentioned in Okakok's article said, in the western world