“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“Education needs to work by pull, not push.”
— Charles Leadbeater
Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums
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“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.”
— Charles Leadbeater
Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums
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