Abstract
Although there have been a few historical accounts of the anarchist school movement, there
has been no systematic work on the philosophical underpinnings of anarchist educational
ideas-until now. Anarchism and Education offers a philosophical account of the neglected
tradition of anarchist thought on education. Although few anarchist thinkers wrote
systematically on education, this analysis is based largely on a reconstruction of the
educational thought of anarchist thinkers gleaned from their various ethical, philosophical