low-cost private schools are revolutionizing education in developing countries
In education, a real revolution is investing in developing countries. In slums and shanty towns of Asia and Africa the poorest are abandoning public schools en masse, discouraged by the low quality of education. Their children are sent to private schools are increasingly "low cost" that are changing the face of those countries.
In ten years of research in Africa, India and China, I cataloged and more recently contributed to the development of private schools on the cheap. For those who want to understand how the most humble know how to "help themselves", this is an exciting story.
Not long ago I was in the slum of Makoko, Nigeria, where a hundred thousand people abitano in capanne di legno edificate su trampoli sulle torbide acque della laguna di Lagos. All'entrata del quartiere si trovano tre scuole pubbliche, uno a fianco all'altra. Visitarle è un'esperienza deprimente: in una classe l'insegnante dorme della grossa. In un'altra 95 allievi stanno seduti a non far niente, mentre il maestro legge il giornale. Altri insegnanti sono assenti.
Ma si può raccontare anche una storia diversa. Nella baraccopoli, ci sono 32 scuole private a basso costo scoperte dai miei ricercatori. Qui i maestri fanno il loro lavoro con impegno, anche perché, se dovessero addormentarsi davanti ai loro allievi, verrebbero immediatamente licenziati. Gli imprenditori che hanno fondato queste scuole sanno di dover rispondere to their customers: parents. A representative example is Kps: Ken Ade Private School. The school was founded in 1990 with just five students in a room made available by a church. Parents paid the line every day when they could afford it. Today the school has 200 students. The line is about $ 4 per day, more or less equal to 8% of what they can earn in a month a fisherman, but the 25 boys attending for free: "If a child is an orphan who can I do? Send him away? "He says the owner.
My research team sifted through the slums of cities in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and India, entering directly into all schools, public and private. What we found is remarkable: in the impoverished areas that we have examined the vast majority of students attend private schools on the cheap. For example, in the poorest area of \u200b\u200bLagos, 75% of pupils attend private schools.
Many parents have tried the public schools, but consider that they are not good enough for their children and thus have given them in private at low cost. This phenomenon is particularly acute in countries that have recently introduced free public education, such as Kenya.
Speaking with the father of a girl in Kibera (one of the largest villages in Africa) I learned that the man had entered her daughter to public school on the outskirts of the neighborhood when he became free, but soon had been adversely affected by the enormous class sizes and teacher inattention.
It's great to talk to these parents. To hear those who oppose private education at low cost, it seems that most poor parents do not have the capacity to make the right decisions about the education of their children. Talking to these fathers and mothers of these shows how false this assumption. A family I know well that he sent his daughter to a private school in a fishing village on the coast of Ghana. Parents have thought long and hard before choosing a school daughter. Joshua's father, a big man coming out in the boat every night at 3 am to catch, I explained it thus: "My father never allowed me to go to school. I want to do everything to ensure that my daughter can have a good education. The reason that private schools are better is that there is an owner. If you do not teach as we expect, get fired. "
The article is an excerpt of James Tooley held yesterday at ' meeting organized by the Foundation for the Milan Expo 2015 and Bruno Leoni Institute . From
Il Sole 24 Ore, 21 January 2011
In ten years of research in Africa, India and China, I cataloged and more recently contributed to the development of private schools on the cheap. For those who want to understand how the most humble know how to "help themselves", this is an exciting story.
Not long ago I was in the slum of Makoko, Nigeria, where a hundred thousand people abitano in capanne di legno edificate su trampoli sulle torbide acque della laguna di Lagos. All'entrata del quartiere si trovano tre scuole pubbliche, uno a fianco all'altra. Visitarle è un'esperienza deprimente: in una classe l'insegnante dorme della grossa. In un'altra 95 allievi stanno seduti a non far niente, mentre il maestro legge il giornale. Altri insegnanti sono assenti.
Ma si può raccontare anche una storia diversa. Nella baraccopoli, ci sono 32 scuole private a basso costo scoperte dai miei ricercatori. Qui i maestri fanno il loro lavoro con impegno, anche perché, se dovessero addormentarsi davanti ai loro allievi, verrebbero immediatamente licenziati. Gli imprenditori che hanno fondato queste scuole sanno di dover rispondere to their customers: parents. A representative example is Kps: Ken Ade Private School. The school was founded in 1990 with just five students in a room made available by a church. Parents paid the line every day when they could afford it. Today the school has 200 students. The line is about $ 4 per day, more or less equal to 8% of what they can earn in a month a fisherman, but the 25 boys attending for free: "If a child is an orphan who can I do? Send him away? "He says the owner.
My research team sifted through the slums of cities in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and India, entering directly into all schools, public and private. What we found is remarkable: in the impoverished areas that we have examined the vast majority of students attend private schools on the cheap. For example, in the poorest area of \u200b\u200bLagos, 75% of pupils attend private schools.
Many parents have tried the public schools, but consider that they are not good enough for their children and thus have given them in private at low cost. This phenomenon is particularly acute in countries that have recently introduced free public education, such as Kenya.
Speaking with the father of a girl in Kibera (one of the largest villages in Africa) I learned that the man had entered her daughter to public school on the outskirts of the neighborhood when he became free, but soon had been adversely affected by the enormous class sizes and teacher inattention.
It's great to talk to these parents. To hear those who oppose private education at low cost, it seems that most poor parents do not have the capacity to make the right decisions about the education of their children. Talking to these fathers and mothers of these shows how false this assumption. A family I know well that he sent his daughter to a private school in a fishing village on the coast of Ghana. Parents have thought long and hard before choosing a school daughter. Joshua's father, a big man coming out in the boat every night at 3 am to catch, I explained it thus: "My father never allowed me to go to school. I want to do everything to ensure that my daughter can have a good education. The reason that private schools are better is that there is an owner. If you do not teach as we expect, get fired. "
The article is an excerpt of James Tooley held yesterday at ' meeting organized by the Foundation for the Milan Expo 2015 and Bruno Leoni Institute . From
Il Sole 24 Ore, 21 January 2011
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