The Children Must Learn
Short documentary presents the case that local schools in poor rural communities of Appalachia must provide an education that will improve people's lives directly such as how to farm correctly and what to plant so that they may ea...
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"Pioneering documentarian Willard van Dyke directs a documentary about the poor allotment farmers of the Appalachian farm communities of the day... and makes his central point the fact that they are taught things that have no bearing on their lives: all about how to start stamp collecting and nothing about how to rotate crops. This movie, produced for the University of Kentucky, was part of the movement that led to government projects like the Tennessee Valley Authority and greater social mobility. Myron McCormick narrates in an angry voice...."
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The University of Kentucky provided academic oversight for the film, helped to fund it, and the university's history department worked to check the veracity of the film's claims.
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Short documentary presents the case that local schools in poor rural communities of Appalachia must provide an education that will improve people's lives directly such as how to farm correctly and what to plant so that they may ea...