From Freedom and Beyond: "In sum, a deschooled society would be a society in which everyone shall have the widest and freest possible choice to learn whatever he wants to learn, whether in school or in some altogether different way . . . . It would be a society in which there were many paths to learning and advancement, instead of one school path as we have now . . . a path far too narrow for everyone, and one too easily and too often blocked off from the poor."
Read MoreMatt Hern, author Everywhere All the Time: A Deschooling Reader, is appearing on The Future of Education for a free, one-hour interview with Steve Hargadon . . .