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Education must be set free it must be returned to parents and to pupils.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Knowledge Problem
Chapter 3: The Threats to Improved Education
Chapter 4: School, Work, and Growing Up
Chapter 5: The Ethics of State Education
Chapter 6: The Rise of the Government School System
Chapter 7: The Art, Science, and Nonsense of Education
Chapter 8: Der Untergang—The Downfall of the Government School System
Chapter 9: The Downward, Self-reinforcing Spiral of Death
Chapter 10: The Kind of Education We Never Had
Chapter 11: The Negative Externalities of Government Education
Chapter 12: The Private Origins of Science and Higher Education
Chapter 13: An educational, socio-economic motorway pile-up
Chapter 14: Replanting the Beautiful Tree
Appendix A: Estimates of the Fall of Quality in Sweden
Appendix B: The Parable of the Citizen Vehicle
References
About the author
Erik Lidström holds an MSc and a PhD in physics from Uppsala University, as well as an MBA from the Open University. After research at the ESRF in Grenoble, he moved to the software industry in 2000. He has worked in Britain, France, Sweden and Morocco, lately with a primary interest in complex development processes and organizational issues.
Summary
Education must be set free it must be returned to parents and to pupils.
Additional text
Throw away all those books on how to fix the education system. As Erik Lindström shows in this thought-provoking book, full of insights, the only way to fix education is not to fix it. Education is too important to be left to the "education experts", and should be a matter for the real experts – schools, teachers and parents.
