Kids, community, and self-design: an introduction / Matt Hern Pt. 1. Looking back : some of the roots of modern deschooling. On education / Leo Tolstoy ; The intimate and the ultimate / Vinoba Bhave ; Deschooling society / Ivan Illich ; Instead of education / John Holt Pt. 2. Living fully : more recent analysis. Sweet land of liberty / Grace Llewellyn ; The public school nightmare: why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought? / John Taylor Gatto ; Challenging the popular wisdom: what can families do? / Geraldine Lyn-Piluso, Gus Lyn-Piluso and Duncan Clarke ; Losing an eye: some thoughts on real safety / Matt Hern ; Learning? Yes, of course. Education? No, thanks / Aaron Falbel Part 3. Just say no : staying home. Dinosaur homeschool / Donna Nichols-White ; Family matters: why homeschooling makes sense / David Guterson ; Doing something very different: growing without schooling / Susannah Sheffer ; Thinking about play, practice, and the deschooling of music / Mark Douglas ; Homeschooling as a single parent / Heather Knox ; Learning as a lifestyle / Heidi Priesnitz ; Deschooling and parent Involvement in education AllPIE - a learning network / Seth Rockmuller and Katharine Houk Pt. 4. Schools that ain't : places that work. Summerhill School / Zoe Readhead ; A history of the Albany Free School and community / Chris Mercogliano ; A school for today / Mimsy Sadofsky ; A wonder story told by a young tree / Ilana cameron ; Windsor House / Meghan Hughes and Jim Carrico ; Liberating education / Satish Kumar