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ACF Europe #17: The Teacher
Here’s one from the headlines, Ricochet: Tyranny in the classroom, ideology threatening to break up the family, coming between parents and children! My friend @FlaggTaylor recommended I go on Amazon Prime & watch the 2016 movie The Teacher, to do a podcast on it. It’s a Czech story about Slovakia in the ‘80s, about a school where parents and the principal have to deal with a teacher high up in the local Communist party. Just before the collapse of Communism, the question of freedom through education comes up—who will educate the first generation of children destined, unbeknownst to themselves or their parents, to become democratic citizens. With freedom in the near future, there’s something maddening about the corruptions of ideological dictatorship, including the intrigue, abuse of power, and despotic behavior it encourages and covers up for. Of course, something not entirely different, certainly an ideological dictatorship and some parts of despotic administration are driving Americans mad now. So the experience of totalitarianism in Europe might be of us to Americans…