About The Alliance for Self-Directed Education
From The Alliance for Self-Directed Learners About page:
SELF-DIRECTED EDUCATION AVAILABLE FOR ALL
“The Alliance for Self-Directed Education (ASDE) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to informing people about the benefits of, and methods for, allowing children and adolescents to direct their own education. The Alliance’s ultimate goal, its vision, is a world in which Self-Directed Education (SDE) is embraced as a cultural norm and is available to all children, everywhere, regardless of their family’s status, race, or income.”
CONCERN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
“A fundamental premise of the Alliance is that top-down, coercive systems of schooling, imposed by states and nations, violate the human rights of children and families to direct their own lives, learning, and paths to adulthood. If there were evidence that coercive schooling were necessary for the welfare of the people on whom it is inflicted, such a system might be justifiable; but, as explained elsewhere in this website, there is no such evidence and there is much evidence to the contrary.”