Suggested reading and watching on education, schooling, and liberty, from diverse sources.
Featured Articles specifically address or provide particular insight into the legitimacy, history, or consequences of institutional systems of schooling, especially those that are compulsory, state-controlled, state-regulated, and/or tax-funded.
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"Education" that Eschews Reason Breeds Mindlessness
Wayne Dunn | The Rational View | 2001
Homeschoolers: Who ARE We?
Cathy Henderson | EducationalFreedom.com | 2001
School's Out
Daniel H. Pink | Reason Online | October 2001
Vouchers and Visions of Freedom: A Fictional History
Richard M. Ebeling | The Future of Freedom Foundation | September 2001
Freedom of Education: A Civil Liberty
Barry Loberfeld | The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty | August 2001
Masters of Their Own Souls: John Taylor Gatto (Interview)
George A. Clowes | School Reform News | Heartland Institute | August 2001
The National Everything Association
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Mike Antonucci | Education Intelligence Agency | August 2001
Toward an Educational Renaissance
Chris Cardiff | The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty | May 2001
The Pledge versus the Oath
Jim Peron | The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty | May 2001
Kids and Drugs
Crispin Sartwell | Baltimore Sun | March 2001
The Promise of Deschooling
Matt Hern | Social Anarchism | 2001
"It is virtually anathema in our culture, but I want to argue here that our society needs far fewer schools, not more. I believe that schools as we have conceived them in the late-20th Century are a parasite on our communities, a burden to our children and are the very essence of a hierarchical, anti-ecological culture. I further contend that dissolving the school monopoly over our kids may well hold the key to reconstructing our communities around local control and participatory democracy."
Public Education versus Liberty: The Pedigree of an Idea
Michiel Visser | Acton Institute | 2001
