On education / Leo Tolstoy -- Intimate and ultimate / Vinoba Bhave -- Deschooling society / Ivan Illich -- Instead of education / John Holt -- Unschooled kids' comments I / various -- The parrot's tale / Rabindranath Tagore -- Francisco Ferrer and the modern school / Emma Golman -- Sweet land of liberty / Grace Llewellyn -- The public school nightmare / John Taylor Gatto -- Learning? Yes, of course / Aaron Falbel -- Unschooled kids' comments II / various -- From untouchables to conscientious objectors / Dan Grego -- Challenging the popular wisdom / Gus and Geraldine Lyn-Piluso -- From a pedagogy of liberation to liberation from pedagogy / Gustavo Esteva, Madhu Prakash, Dana Stuchul -- Getting busy / Matt Hern -- Summerhill School / Zoe Readhead -- A history of the Albany Free School / Chris Mercogliano -- Unschooled kids' comments III / various -- Liberating education / Satish Kumar -- Democratic education in Israel / Chris Balme, Dana Bennis -- Claiming our humanity / Rene Antrop-Gonzalez -- A school for today / Mimsy Sadofsky -- Windsor House / Jim and Meghan Carrico -- Building an alternative education movement in Turkey / Eylem Korkmaz, Bulent Akdag -- The Purple Thistle Centre / Devon McKellar -- A face without a name / Saowanee Sangkara, Jim Connor -- Shikshantar : an organic learning community / Shilpa Jain -- Rebuilding learning communities in Mali / Coumba Toure -- Doing something very different / Susannah Sheffer -- Unschooled kids' comments IV / various -- Play, practice, and the deschooling of music / Mark Douglas -- Homeschooling as a single parent / Heather Knox -- The root of education / Pat Farenga -- Lunch at the Westin / Dick Westheimer -- Valedictory address / Ben Kelly