Francisco Ferrer & the Free Education Movement

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Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004

Today, the concept of a free school has many connotations. It can mean the freedom to choose what to learn or whether to learn at all. But whatever we mean by free, we can’t really discuss the free schools of…

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Stumbling Upon Public School Utopias

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Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004

Part One: Utopia Outlined February 1999: I’m pivoting on my desk, basking in a student-led discussion, momentarily featuring a couple of black-clad teenagers contrasting the ideological differences between Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid with Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment.

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