3. A Puff of Logic, Nigeria - tooley beautifull tree

3. A Puff of Logic, NigeriaRead more at location 653

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The Nigerian Ex–Chief InspectorRead more at location 654

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I told him that I wanted to research private schools in poor areas of Lagos. He dismissed this idea straightaway: “There are no private schools for the poor. In Nigeria, private schools are only for the elite.”Read more at location 657

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I visited Nigeria to meet with the University of Ibadan team; we went into the slums of Lagos and found private schools—everywhere, just as in India.Read more at location 658

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He said they definitely weren’t there, not in Nigeria and, by implication, not in any other country. So I dropped the issue and we went on to other matters, and further beers.Read more at location 673

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MakokoRead more at location 674

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“That’s Makoko.” This was exactly the kind of place that I wanted to visit, to find private schools. “You won’t find private schools there!” he laughed, outraged at the idea.Read more at location 682

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In any case, he added, “Too dangerous.” In fact, he’d never visited, but said that it definitely wasn’t safe for outsiders to venture. “There’s no police there, anything goes,” he said, with a finality that he felt should have been the end of the matter.Read more at location 683

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I was in Lagos training the University of Ibadan team who would be collecting data on the proportion of students in public and private schools and to learn as much as possible about the nature of the low-cost private schools and how they compare with their public counterparts.Read more at location 689

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An official report said that Lagos State, with 15 million people making it the sixth-largest global city, was “faced with a grave urban crisis,”Read more at location 692

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classify areas as “poor” or “nonpoor,” with the former featuring overcrowded housing with poor drainage, poor sanitation, and lack of potable water, and prone to occasional flooding.Read more at location 695

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we trained them to go out and search for all the primary and secondary schools in the selected areas.Read more at location 700

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Lanre had found government lists of public and recognized private schools, but we told the researchers they were on their own as far as unrecognized private schools were concerned. We told them to comb every street and alleyway in the urban areas, visit every village and settlement in the rural surrounding areas, looking for private schools. Be warned, we said, they won’t necessarily have signboards advertising their existence: in Nigeria, there is a hefty tax on signboards, so school owners often prefer to go without.Read more at location 700

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Afterward, they were to ask if they could do a brief, unannounced tour of the schoolRead more at location 706

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there was only one place that I wanted to go to see for myself: Makoko.Read more at location 710

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Men sitting on doorsteps started calling, “Oyinbo” (white man). Children playfully joined in the chorus: “Oyinbo, oyinbo, oyinbo!’Read more at location 715

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The paved road ended at a speed bump; beyond was just a track so muddy that it was impassable for our vehicle.Read more at location 723

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We picked our way carefully. The street was flooded from the previous night’s rains. The open sewers along either side had spilled out into the road;Read more at location 726

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PRAISE The Beautiful Tree: A personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves by James Tooley

The Beautiful Tree: A personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves by James Tooley

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Praise for The Beautiful TreeRead more at location 3

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He came across an unexpected phenomenon: an unending line of small, no-frills private schools catering to poor kids.Read more at location 11

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He found that, on average, they had smaller class sizes, higher test scores and more motivated teachers, all while spending less than public schools.Read more at location 12

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When parents pay the fees that keep a school afloat, he reasons, the school becomes more accountable to them.Read more at location 14

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“Tooley's specialty as both scholar and practitioner is ultra-low-cost private education in the world's poorest countries.Read more at location 28

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Orthodox opinion on developing-country education for the poor holds that parents are too ignorant to know a good school when they see one,Read more at location 29

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and that a decent education is impossible to provide on the minimal budgets available to private schools serving poor students.Read more at location 30

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country after country, Tooley found that both claims are false.Read more at location 31

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“In an era when all the top economics journals are populated with complex mathematical analysis, James Tooley does something really quite unusual. He conducts research about what real people actually do.Read more at location 34

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Economists identify so many theoretical problems with the provision of private education for the poorest people without troubling themselves to find out whether people overcome those problems in practice: Tooley demonstrates that they do.Read more at location 35

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Entrepreneurs and parents surmount huge obstacles to ensure that children are better educated than in state schools run by bureaucracies purporting to act in the interests of those whom they have never met.Read more at location 37

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The Beautiful Tree, has much in common with the work undertaken by Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom.Read more at location 39

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Instead of being dependent on foreign aid and public schools, the world's poorest people are educating their children on their own dime.Read more at location 50

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We meet the real teachers, students, and parents who constitute the delicate educational ecosystems under constant threat from bureaucrats, do-gooders, and naysayers.Read more at location 58

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“Edify has a goal to finance 4000 schools by 2017. This will impact over 1 million children. James Tooley directly inspired my life's work. As a result, I believe that, over the next 20 years, 20 million impoverished children will receive a much better education than otherwise would have been possible.” —Christopher A. Crane, president and CEO, Edify.org, a humanitarian organization devoted to working with affordable private schoolsRead more at location 63

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