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The Tom Woods Show.

Welcome, everybody. It's Tuesday, September 9th, 2014.

We're talking about education today and how private schools, low-cost private schools, are educating the poor all over the world.

We talked about this with Pauline Dixon earlier this year.

But now we're talking to James Tully, whose work in this area is just extraordinary.

I could spend all my time just listing for you the awards he's won,

the recognition he has received. He is a professor of education policy at the University of Newcastle,

where he directs the E.G. West Center. The book of his we're going to talk about today is The Beautiful Tree,

a personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves. Stay tuned

after my conversation with James Tully for an important note about the future of this show.

So don't go away after my chat. But James Tully, welcome to the show.

Thank you. Good to talk you, Tom. You know, after I had Pauline Dixon, also of the EG. West Center

as a guest earlier this year, I got a bunch of emails saying, well, now you obviously have to have

James Tully on to continue this conversation. What she told us

in that appearance was quite surprising. And I'm sure what you're, I'm sure you get the same

response when you go around telling people about a phenomenon, namely low-cost private

schools in the developing world that no one would remotely have any way of

knowing about.

It's still extraordinary to me.

I've been talking about this, actually, for nearly 14 years now.

14 years ago, I first came across this phenomenon.

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