Oh, my word.
You spoke about the discipline used in schools. My daughter is currently teaching in west Africa. She's teaching grade 4 and 5 English in a basic school in Tarkwa, Ghana. When she was first signing her papers with the headmaster, he handed her a cane and said, “This is what we use for discipline.” My daughter said, “Well, I won't manage my classroom that way.” He told her, “The kids expect it. This is what we do.” My daughter said, “I won't manage my class that way.” It's created some other challenges, because the kids know that she won't use the cane in the classroom, and she has had to develop other mechanisms to class-manage. But it was just the way it is.
Do you ever interface with ministers of education in developing countries in order to help them understand that children live what they learn?