A personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves

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23 Feb 2012

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A beautiful tree
It is about authors experience about how the poor, not the poor people like this but the most desperately poor people try to educate their children. His experiences were from various countries such as India, Ghana, Kenya and China. The name of the book comes from what Gandhiji use to call the pre-colonial education system.

About James Tooley
James Tooley is a professor of education policy at Newcastle university, where he directs the E. G. West Centre. For his ground-breaking research on private education for the poor in India, China and Africa, Professor Tooley was awarded gold prize in the first International Finance Corporation/Financial Times Private Sector Development Competition...
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About Beautiful Tree
Private education might be considered a privilege for the wealthy, but in India it is often considered necessary in the face of an inconsistent public education system. In the first of a series of excerpts from James Tooley's "The Beautiful Tree" the author explores education as a means of economic development on the eve of India's...
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