ABSTRACT
Hannah Arendt’s recommendation to ‘stop and think’ from time to time is a step every reformer should consider, according to Tate (2015), when evaluating past practice and proposed innovations in curriculum and teaching. Inspired by Hannah’s suggestion, I wrote this book to evoke policymakers, reformers, change agents, school members, and community leaders to think ‘out of the box’ during their attempts to reform the local educational system in the developing world. In my view, reformers in this world face a host of deep potholes and ought to cross them in ways rooted in the local culture and society. Only then will they be able to find a suitable defile to go through in the high mountains of the educational system and redress local imperfections and shortcomings effectively.
