Free schools

Kozol talks a bout one important point of free schools. He says that most of them are just places were middle-upper class children go to study, and they are isolated from the reality of the outside world (that sounds a little like Soka). He doesn’t see this as a positive thing because those “beautiful children of the rich and powerful within this nation are going to be condemned to wield that power also.” He says that that shouldn’t be the point of a free school, which although it shouldn’t be run as a public school, it shouldn’t be something completely different from the reality of this either.
In Summerhill, Neil describes what this school is like. Its philosophy is based upon the idea that children should be treated as adults, that there shouldn’t be any difference between both of them. I like that he mentioned that freedom should not be taken as license, and that is something that the children from Summerhill diferentiate. After reading this text I feel a little more positive about free schools. I think that there are some good points, bad I sisagree with some of them too. For example, I don’t agree with the fact that students only study what they want because I think that by taking a class that may seem uninteresting to them, they might discover that that subject wasn’t actually what they thought it might be, and they may feel more interested afterwards. They may feel even that they discovered something that they didn’t know about themselves. I make this assumption because I have experienced this, and I also know people who have had the same experience.