“Education needs to work by pull, not push.”
When Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education he never would have imagined the answer to his quest would be found in the slums of Rio and Kibera. What he discovered was that here, in some of the world’s poorest areas, children were “finding transformative new ways to learn.” After spending time in these “informal, disruptive new kind of school(s),” he now believes this is “what all schools need to become.”
As Leadbeater points out:
If you want to attract people like Juanderson — who could buy guns, wear jewelry, ride motorbikes and get girls through the drugs trade — to education, having a compulsory curriculum doesn’t really make sense.