Wow, I think I'm going to disengage this conversation now. Václav Havel died last week. I was afraid of slow disappearance of the values he defended, but I see the Western pleb has very twisted values already.
Canada tried that with its native population in the 20th century -- take children away from their backwards and uncivilized parents and raise them instead in residential schools -- and it was an utter disaster.
Old Tibetan system is exactly how force kids turning into monks and abey the teachings of Dalai Lama (note: not only the 14th).
What the Communist did wrong in Tibet, is not about exile Dalai Lama, but replacing the old ruling ranks without providing more options. So if anything thing went wrong, blame the Communists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Turkestan_Islamic_Movement