As a private teacher, I find that school can not even come close to the effectiveness I can achieve with my students.  I am not just a tutor, I am more like a teacher running his own school.  There is no interference from anyone.  School is a sluggish system that is wildly ineffective and redundant.  I have found this book to be quite interesting.  It is written by educators who know that conventional schooling needs reformation.  Though I say tear down all schools, and let's create a system where students, teachers and parents are more happy and not burdened by a headless despotic education system and a relic from the industrial revolution where the question of 'what to do with the children' was in need of addressing.    http://paltip.com/westlondonenglish/!50pu  From West London English and Media Teacher, English and Media teacher in Harrow, London