Education Unchained: What it takes to Restore Schools and Learning

by Erik Lidstrom

Are we going about education the wrong way? The somewhat shocking demonstration of this book is that "we" simply cannot reform "our" schools "together". We don't actually even know what schools or education really are. Education can only be improved the same way we improve and invent things in other walks of life, through unbridled, unchained trial and error.

Assembling a wealth of economic, psychological and historical evidence, Erik Lidström paints a coherent and deceptively simple picture of how we went wrong, of why we went wrong and what we can do about it. The disconcerting conclusion is that education must be set free, it must be returned to parents and to pupils. Government should have no, or hardly any role in the financing of education, in the setting of curricula or diploma, or in the supervision of schools and education.

At the same time, the book is filled with optimism. By doing things very differently, we can very quickly and almost painlessly restore education and learning to a level previously unheard of.

190 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2015

Reviews

[Niklas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting ideas, could be thiner and still present a powerful argument

[Fredrik · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have never seen the history of swedish schools written like this. I attended this school system myself, and now my children are.

This is an eye-opener.