1.    I was traveling in Africa / Asia / South America, and the people I talked to there all wanted modern schools for their children.  Are you saying they’re wrong?

No.  But there’s an important context in which we need to view this phenomenon….(more)

2.     Isn’t it equally paternalistic to say that people shouldn’t have schools if they want them?

Of course.   It’s not our job to decide how people in other parts of the world should raise their children…(more)

3.    If you don’t think schools are the way to end poverty, then what do you think we should do?

Schooling the World is addressing the impacts of education programs on relatively intact traditional cultures…(more)

4.  But isn’t education for girls important?

The appeal of the mainstream narrative about building schools and educating girls is its simplicity…. (more)