Property tycoon builds £150k garden school and slams 'rigid' UK education system View 4 Images

A wealthy father has spent £150,000 building a school in his back garden for his children after becoming frustrated with what he calls the "rigid" and "oppressive" British education system - and has now employed two teachers.

Property mogul Samuel Leeds, 34, decided to remove his three eldest children - aged eight, seven and five - from mainstream education due to his worries about the lack of financial and entrepreneurial teaching in their syllabus.

The father-of-four spent six months building the 600 square foot learning facility, where he now has two full-time teachers on staff and teaches finance classes himself. The school has capacity for 12 pupils altogether; presently those attendi

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