University of New Castle Professor and Director of the E.G. West Centre, James Tooley is a tireless champion of private education for children in the developing world. In researching his new book, A Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How The World’s Poorest People are Educating Themselves, Tooley found pockets of communities all over the world that are providing cheap, fee-based schooling for their kids. It turns out private education isn’t only for the affluent. In today’s National Review Online, Dan Lips, senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation, writes a glowing review of A Beautiful Tree:
Professor Tooley’s pioneering research has turned the development community’s conventional wisdom on its head with a message of personal empowerment. Instead of being dependent on foreign aid and public schools, the world’s poorest people are educating their children on their own dime…The Beautiful Tree deserves a wide audience and should be required reading for everyone involved in the struggle to ensure universal education for the world’s poor.
Read the review here.
For more on Prof. Tooley and his new book see here, and on the E.G. West Centre’s Scholarship for Kids, here.
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