Preface: Why and How This Book Was Written
Introduction. What Education Is About
pt. 1. Where Today's Educational System Fails
2. The Classroom Environment
3. Subjects and Disciplines
5. Antidemocratic Schooling
6. Factors That Resist Change
pt. 2. Factors That Contribute to Education
7. The Environment a Developed Society Provides for Individual Realization
8. The Special Demands the Environment of a Liberal Democracy Places on Individual Realization
9. What Individuals Contribute to Their Own Education
pt. 3. Envisioning Ideal Lifelong Education
11. Why, and How, We Should Be Envisioning an Ideal Educational Environment
13. A New Look at Schools K-12
14. The College and University Experience
15. Education and the Working Life
16. Taking "Retire" Out of Retirement
pt. 4. Excursus: Funding Ideal Schools
Appendix. Sudbury Valley School
