Field Day: Getting Society Out of School

Rating:
Summary: Powerful. Creative. Brave.
Review: This is a book that was crying out to be written. It is an articulate, passionate, and informative argument for ending state monopoly education. Hern believes the question is not whether this will happen, but when. He may be right: the constituency for ending monopoly education is broad, encompassing everyone from human rights advocates to religious home-schoolers, from anarchists to libertarian Republicans. Hern believes there are as many ways to learn as their are children; his approach is decidedly child and community centred. Yet, Hern ultimately subordinates his preferred pedagogy to the greater vision, anticipating a pluralistic universe of learning alternatives in a post-monopoly world.