It would be everybody's hope that the education system of a First-World country would create room for a first-rate academically oriented student body. Yet when the author, Fred Sheldon Mwesigwa, encountered education in the United Kingdom's public secondary schools, the reverse turned out to be the case. He compares the perplexing resistance to learning in the British schools with the high appetite for learning among Uganda's students. The revised edition of this book, Contrasting Ironies: English and Ugandan State Secondary Schools, was rolled out thirteen years after the author's teaching experience in England and thirty years of teaching in Uganda's schools. It gives a vivid update on the state of schools in Uganda and England, reflected mainly through their products.
