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

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A Beautiful Book in Deeshaa.org
Jul Mon 2010

It was on Deeshaa.org.
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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.

News of citizens of India
Jul Mon 2010

Just because the middle class citizens of India were in a “poor” country, they were able to latch onto this international assistance even though they as individuals had no pressing need for it at all.

News about public schools in india
Jul Mon 2010

In one region of India, 80% of urban children and 30% of rural children attend private schools; in China's Gansu province 586 private schools are located in small villages, even though the state prides itself on its public system. Contrary to accepted wisdom, the modest fees of private schools are within reach of most, and parents find them superior to public schools that are often riddled with corruption and incompetence.

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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