"This volume brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of Ferrer's own writings, documenting the daily life and aims of the Escuela Moderna, alongside reflections, often critical, by contemporary anarchists and other radical thinkers. Together with the editors' thoughtful Introduction, the result is a fascinating collection--essential reading for anyone keen to go beyond the image of Ferrer the martyr of libertarian education and to understand the perennial moral and political questions at the heart of any project of education for freedom." --Judith Suissa, author, Anarchism and Education: A Philosophical Perspective

"Bray and Haworth have here provided a great gift to the history of liberatory education and to its possible social futures, as this book is sure to become a definitive text on the origins and development of the international Modern School movement." --Richard Kahn, Antioch University, Los Angeles

"A thorough and balanced collection of the writings of the doyen of a myriad horizontal educational projects in Spain and more still across the world. Equally welcome are the well-researched introduction and the afterword that underline both the multiplicity of anarchist perspectives on education and social transformation and the complexity of Ferrer's thinking." --Chris Ealham, author, Living Anarchism: Jose Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement

"Part martyr, part visionary, Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School Movement he created have continued to preoccupy educational reformers and political activists despite or because of Ferrer's execution by a repressive Spanish government in 1909. Revealing Ferrer's flaws, Mark Bray and Robert Haworth nevertheless evoke a person and a period when political visionaries and educational reformers promised and almost succeeded in transforming civic life in Europe and the Americas." --Temma Kaplan, distinguished professor emerita, Rutgers University

Francisco Ferrer Guardia (1859-1909) was a Spanish anarchist and the founder of la Escuela Moderna. Mark Bray is a historian, a political organizer, and the author of Antifa and Translating Anarchy. Robert H. Haworth is an associate professor at West Chester University and the editor of Anarchist Pedagogies.