The Escuela Moderna Movement of Francisco Ferrer: "Por la Verdad y la Justicia"

Abstract

FERRER'S MODERN SCHOOL MOVEMENT has recently been brought to the attention of English-speaking educational historians in the scholarly work of Paul Avrich on American Anarchism and (in a somewhat more popular vein) in the writings of Joel Spring. However, apart from a considerable range of contemporary and near-contemporary biographical accounts, the majority of which are either uncritically sympathetic or overtly hostile, there still exists no definitive and scholarly biography of the martyred Spanish libertarian or philosophic Anarchist, Francisco Ferrer y Guardia.* Several good critical studies dealing both with Ferrer and Ferrer's