Author James Tooley braids together personal experience, community action, individual courage, and family devotion to tell the story of the small, parent-funded schools he first came upon in India that could help achieve universal education.
Tooley details his travels from the largest shanty town in Africa to the mountains of China, and the children, parents, teachers, and entrepreneurs who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own schools and learning to save themselves.
The Beautiful Tree is not another book lamenting what has gone wrong in some of the world’s poorest communities. It is a book about what is going right, and powerfully demonstrates how the entrepreneurial spirit and the love of parents for their children can be found in every corner of the globe.
With the tragedies in Denmark, at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, and now in Garland, Texas, issues of self-censorship in the face of intimidation and the nature of free speech moved to the forefront of public debate.
No one knows this debate better than Flemming Rose, the editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, who in 2005 published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, inciting a worldwide firestorm.
In The Tyranny of Silence, Flemming Rose recounts his story and takes a hard look at attempts to limit free speech - offering an extraordinarily authentic perspective that can be fully applied to debates raging over threats of violence and what it means to live in a multireligious, culturally borderless world.
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