As it is conventionally understood, education cannot be generalised, even in the wealthiest societies. The Senegalese experiment shows that there is an alternative. Putting itself across as a cornucopia of exciting opportunities, more often than not it is experienced by those inside it as mere fatigue duty. A moot point. No doubt because people forget to ask what education is actually for.
Public money is there to be used for private gain.
Anyway, two cheers for democracy. Another Senegalese experiment gives us a different slant on this widely held belief. Based in Dakar, it is involved in grass-roots social reconstruction and adult education. Beginning its work in 1975, several of its branches found themselves radicalising their modus operandi. Then the sociologists in turn trained social workers to apply these solutions, and evaluated the results.