The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain’t Learning, by Lant Pritchett. In short, it is an informed polemic against top-down, state-run school systems in underdeveloped countries, notably India. Tyler Cowen mentioned it, but otherwise it has received no play anywhere. Maybe it is just too contrary to conventional wisdom for people to grasp.
It is possibly the best book I have read this year. It immediately vaults onto the list of libertarian classics. This is in addition to being an important book about education in underdeveloped countries.
I will have to finish it and then re-read it before writing a more comprehensive review.
Kindle or paper? Mere curiosity since you’ve written that you favor paper, but the Kindle version is less than half the price in this case.
For my part, I think I’ll hold out for when the paper comes back in stock…
Kindle (actually, Google tablet) but it makes some parts hard to read.
Have you read James Tooley’s “The Beautiful Tree”? If not, you should check it out.