Anarchist Education And The Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 10
A Note on Translation......Page 11
I. Introduction: The Three Faces of Ferrer by Mark Bray......Page 12
II. Francisco Ferrer: The Man by Mark Bray......Page 29
1. Preliminary Explanation......Page 55
2. La Señorita Meunié......Page 58
3. Responsibility Accepted......Page 61
4. The Early Program......Page 66
5. The Coeducation of the Sexes......Page 70
6. The Coeducation of the Social Classes......Page 75
7. School Hygiene......Page 78
8. The Teachers......Page 87
9. The Reform of the School......Page 91
10. Neither Reward nor Punishment......Page 98
11. Laicism and the Library......Page 104
12. Sunday Lectures......Page 118
13. Positive Results......Page 122
14. In Legitimate Defense......Page 130
15. The Ingenuousness of the Child......Page 138
16. Boletín de la Escuela Moderna......Page 149
17. The Closing of the Modern School......Page 159
IV. The Modern School Bulletin......Page 166
1. Modern School Daily Schedule......Page 167
2. Students’ Personal Grades......Page 178
3. Discord in the Family by Alicia Maur......Page 181
4. Student Presentations......Page 184
5. Money......Page 186
6. Direct Action by Dr. Meslier......Page 188
7. The Renewed School of Tomorrow, the Rebellious School of Today by Grandjouan......Page 190
V. Anarchist Critiques of Ferrer and the Modern School......Page 199
1. Excerpt of Letter from Jacquinet to Ferrer, November 11, 1900......Page 200
2. Sociology in the School......Page 201
3. The Problem of Teaching......Page 211
1. Manifesto of the Three Hundred......Page 218
2. How the Spanish Republic Will End Anarchy......Page 220
VII. Ferrer and the General Strike......Page 224
1. God or the State: NO—The General Strike: YES......Page 226
2. The General Strike Will Enrich the Poor without Impoverishing the Rich......Page 227
3. Will There Be Blood?—Yes, a Lot......Page 228
4. The Republicans Are Not Revolutionaries—Only the General Strike Will Make the Revolution......Page 229
5. Preparing the Revolutionary General Strike......Page 231
6. Property and the Anarchists: The Crazy and the Reasonable......Page 233
VIII. Ferrer’s Prison Poems......Page 236
IX. The International League for the Rational Education of Children......Page 239
X. Francisco Ferrer: The Martyr by Mark Bray......Page 246
The Ferrer Protest Movement of 1909......Page 247
Immortalizing Ferrer......Page 253
The Birth of the International Modern School Movement......Page 255
Rudolf Rocker on Ferrer......Page 263
Ferrer as His Friends Saw Him by Renato Rugieres......Page 266
The Significance of Ferrer’s Death by Emma Goldman......Page 270
Francisco Ferrer by Voltairine de Cleyre......Page 272
Tributes from Prominent Figures......Page 288
The Need of Translating Ideals into Life by Alexander Berkman......Page 292
Poems for Ferrer......Page 296
XI. Afterword: Learning from Ferrer by Robert H. Haworth......Page 307
Bibliography......Page 318
About the Authors......Page 328
Index......Page 329