Steve Forbes mentions Philip Howard and Life Without Lawyers on Forbes.com's Intelligent Investing
March 23, 2009
During his interview of Eli Broad on the weekly Forbes.com segment, Intelligent Investing with Steve Forbes, Mr. Forbes referenced Howard and the education section of Life Without Lawyers:
“One of the criticisms that has been made of many public schools in this country, and Philip Howard, in his book, makes notes of it, [is that] it has been utterly bureaucratized, dominated by rulebooks. That teachers and principals don’t have the capacity to make decisions. Everything’s got to go; they’re always looking over their shoulders.
By the rules; can’t touch a student; hard to discipline them because everyone knows that if you do anything, you’re going to get a lawsuit.”
You can watch the video and read the full transcript here.
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