ABSTRACT
Anarchists put parents first and generally have confidence in their abilities to make good educational choices without unmerited deference towards professional qualifications. Education starts with parental provision in the home. In the turbulent years after the 1960s, vehement opposition to what would be an extraordinary rise of centralisation, that would blind many people to the distinction between education and schooling, many of whose voices have been lost in the rhetoric around what the State allegedly needed to do in ‘the standards agenda’. The reduction of full-time employment and even, for some, the abolition of work will surely be the greatest game-changer in patterns of education and schooling. One effect would be a much better balance of teachers and adults-other-than-teachers in the educational experience of the young. Diversity and choice require that schools become truly diverse, each with its own ethos and philosophy and perhaps a subject specialism.
