ABSTRACT
By way of conclusion, the genealogy and philosophy of educational freedom is summarised. Academies and Free Schools are seen to have a foundation of morality and values forged by hegemonic liberalism, cognisant of and sensitive toward pluralism in community and relativism in personal belief. They represent a return to the freedoms of the earliest Church schools; freedoms still enjoyed principally (on scale) by the Church of England. Free school philosophy is that of common ground and the market combined for a philosophy of goodness. The free school elite are seen to bring their elite culture, ideas, language and social philosophy in order to effect a deep and sustained reform. The consensus is manifest, though partial for some. Taken as a whole, the Gove Act is likely to constitute a generational free school settlement.
