The Beautiful Tree A Personal Journey Into How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themsleves

Upon its first release several years ago, The Beautiful Tree was instantly embraced and praised by individuals and organizations across the globe. James Tooley's extraordinary ability to braid together personal experience, community action, individual courage, and family devotion, brought readers to the very heart, in all respects, of education. “This is a book that is filled with hope,” noted the London Review of Books, “and one cannot but feel moved by the struggle of poor parents and their children doing their best to get into education for all the right reasons.”