Liverpool Free School | Should education be compulsory? | British Schools | This week | 1971 

I started school in 1968 I hated it from the word go I wanted to go to work before I started school I used to go on deliveries with my dad when he work for Unilever in the 1960s, I drudged my way through what was like a prison !!!! , left in 1980 found my own way got my degree in 1997 and I have worked as an engineer ever since!!!

Why not have a free school for doctors, plumbers and auto engineers and pilots.

I first heard of free schools in the BBC series Back In Time For School. Since then and afyer watching this video, I wonder what would happen if free schools were still around.

Wow. That was fascinating

They hate you when your clever and they dispise a fool as Lennon said. Nothing has changed.

The free school was actually quite ahead of it's time. We have a modern version of such a school in my town (although it's definitely not free) but there are more varied learning opportunities and more autonomy /responsibility expected of the children.

I went through school in the 80s and 90s in Australia and for the most part I think it was fantastic. It combined the relaxed easy going nature of free school which gave us as students plenty of room to explore our own interests BUT we also had a strong emphasis on the basics, reading, writing, arithmetic (maths). Free school looks great but I do wonder if the kids learn to read and write at a decent level but the stuffy British state school system of those days appeared incredibly rigid and dull.

Very very 70s hairstyles on the boys. Hard to believe it is from as early as 1971!

More info on the school BBC News - The anarchic experimental schools of the 1970s www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29518319

RIP John Ord of Scotland road free school 06/11/21 🖤

I wonder what happened to the free school?

I remember freezing 🥶 my tits of at school in the early 90s, in one of those porta cabins classrooms, dreadful conditions it was.

They mention A.S. Neill!

Basshead will not appear here, I am sure. That also due to the fact that his vocabulary does not go beyond "1st"

Beautiful concept, blessings that more people gain self-sovereignty in their lives!

"A highly spectacular particular!"

Fascinating ..nothing has changed in 50 years ...

I bet a lot of these children had learning disabilities and need to be in special ed classes.😥

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How Irish they sounded back then.

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I am watching this from 2020 and I am horrified about how they are running the free school.

Typical workshy scousers!!

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