Author Archives: Gregory Rosenthal

What Can We Learn From History? The Russian Revolution

At the most recent general meeting of the Free University of NYC (last Sunday), some expressed the need to contextualize our movement within a larger history of free education movements in the United States and around the world.

Perhaps this blog is as good a place as any to start such a conversation. What can we learn from history? What are particularly meaningful, inspiring, or problematic models in the history of free education?

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Sharing and Struggling with Ideas

This is an invitation. An invitation to share words, photo and video. To share knowledge and critiques. To share advice and questions, doubts and dreams.

This is an experiment. What is the “Free University”? What does “free education” mean? And what are we willing to do to make it a reality? Continue reading