“Education Needs Punishment” – The need for a new paradigm in Haiti

More than 20 years ago, soon after moving into a mountain community overlooking Port-au-Prince, I sat with seven-year-old twins Djeff and Ricardo and their father, Joel. In my limited Creole I asked Djeff and Ricardo to be my language teachers. With a grin Joel grabbed a tree branch and started stripping off the leaves, turning […]