Modern free schools have a lot to learn from anarchist education
More pupil power and less hierarchy in schools could better
train children for life, an exhibition in south London reveals
Anarchy free school An exhibition by Adelita Husni-Bey suggests
self-run anarchist education could better train children for
life. Photograph: Adelita Husni-Bey, courtesy of Galleria
Laveronica  While Thatcher took away free milk and Blair gave us
academies, the coalition government's legacy is the
controversial drive for even more free schools. The intention is
to broaden education and increase choice. But tell that to the
anarchist thinkers of the early 20th century, whose original
free schools had little time for meddling ministers.  An
exhibition in south London compares today's neo-liberal
understanding of free school with past and present models of
self-run education. And the artist behind it believes there's
plenty both teachers and politicians could learn from a little
anarchy in the UK.  Artist Adelita Husni-Bey's