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The Beautiful Tree is not a comfortable book. It questions any number of orthodoxies and stereotypes, with a bracing willingness to confront conventional assumptions. But at the same time it is a beautiful book—alive to the grace of people, and their desire for a better life, a better future and a better education.
Written by James Tooley and based on his own research, The Beautiful Tree tells the story of private education among the world's poor—not mission schools for the rich, or government schools, but co-operative, community schools. These schools are not run for the poor by a government department, but are accountable to, and paid for, by the poor themselves.

Named after Mahatma Gandhi's phrase for the schools of pre-colonial India, The Beautiful Tree is not another book lamenting what has gone wrong in the Third World. It is a book about what is going right, illustrating that even the most disadvantaged parents in the poorest corners of the globe have the power to create tremendous educational experiences for their children.

"This is an insightful, empathetic testament to the motivation and ability of the most underprivileged people on Earth to lift each other—and a condemning chronicle of the wrong-headed, wasteful ways that many governments and aid agencies have used to ‘help’ them."
—CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN
Harvard Business School; Author, The Innovator’s Dilemma

"With this important and passionately written book, James Tooley has joined the late Milton Friedman as a name to be reckoned with in support of ‘market solutions’ for providing quality education to poor children."
—HERNANDO DE SOTO
Recipient of the 2004 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty; Author, The Other Path

James Tooley

James Tooley is Professor of Education Policy at Newcastle University and is the founder of The Beautiful Tree Foundation. His work in slum and low-income areas around the world and dedication to private initiatives in education have won him worldwide acclaim and awards. He is the world’s expert on private schools for the poor in developing countries.

Tooley was born in the UK in 1959, went to teach mathematics in Zimbabwe to celebrate the new liberation there and fell in love with Africa. Whilst working for the IFC and World Bank in the 1990s, Tooley explored the Old City of Hyderabad and discovered what was to become his life's passion, private schools operated by entrepreneurs dedicated to children and parents desperate to gain an education.

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