http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&ion=current&issue=2003-01-18&id=2690I don't know if I've read a better article on education recently. Check this out and see if it doesn't open your eyes to things we take for granted.
Here's a sample from it:
Seated in his office beneath a rickety fan that blows the sweat across his forehead, he chuckles as he tells me that, at the age of seven, he wrote to President Eisenhower from his village in West Ghana asking for help with his studies. 'The Americans wouldn't help me,' he smiles, 'so I learnt to help myself.' And now 45 per cent of Ghanaian children go to private school in Accra, many of these from poor families like the ones he serves, also 'helping themselves.'
