When I was in Mexico in 1972 attending lectures by Ivan Illich on Deschooling and deinstitutionalization in general I met with John Holt. He was a school reformer who was instrumental in much growth of the home education movement after 1977 when he started his Growing Without Schooling magazine.

He said: “Today freedom has different enemies. It must be fought for in different ways. It will take very different qualities of mind and heart to save it.”

We see what’s happened in California. Sane people there are counseling “Be cool” and let the Supreme Court overturn this, but, don’t push for legislation. Why? Because the teacher unions are so politically powerful! We do have to beware of the predatory state and its agents.

And why are these authorities, state powers, and various public servant groups so pugnacious? It’s because they are protecting their ill-gotten gain, that which they usurped from their rightful owners – the families.
- Tunya Audain, Vancouver, BC, Canada