Essay:student unionism and student self-education

Template:incomplete Students' unions and other such organizations tend to organize within already-established state-owned or private-for-profit educational institutions (from middle-to-high school grades on up). But what about those institutions which are voluntary consolidated AND not-for-profit? Should students unions of students' interests be represented in such democratically-governed educational institutions?

At the present, the institution which is closest to such an ideal is the homeschool cooperative, which only works up to high school grades before the parent-teachers send their children off to one of the previously-mentioned types of educational institutions. Thus, when students are shipped off to either type of educational institution, isn't there a third, democratic option for post-secondary education?

I propose the formation of a student-managed self-education cooperative, in which students join together in a mutual agreement to both teach and learn from each other. It uses autodidacticism, Learning by teaching, democratic education, and free schools.