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After the 4 July 1914 [[Lexington Avenue bombing]], the police investigated and several times raided the Ferrer Center and other labor and anarchist organisations in New York City.<ref name=Avrich>Avrich, Paul, ''The Modern School Movement''. Princeton: Princeton University Press (1980); Avrich, Paul, ''[[Anarchist Portraits]]'', Princeton: Princeton University Press, {{ISBN|0-691-00609-1}} (1988)</ref> Acknowledging the urban danger to their school, the organizers bought 68 acres (275,000 m<sup>2</sup>) in [[Piscataway Township, New Jersey]], and moved there in 1914, becoming the center of the Stelton Colony. Moreover, beyond New York City, the [[Ferrer Colony and Modern School]] was founded ({{circa|1910}}–1915) as a Modern School-based community, that endured some forty years. In 1933, James and Nellie Dick, who earlier had been principals of the Stelton Modern School, founded the Modern School in [[Lakewood, New Jersey]],<ref name=Avrich/> which survived the original Modern School, the Ferrer Center, becoming the final surviving such school, lasting until 1958.<ref>[http://www.educationrevolution.org/aerogramme11.html AERO-GRAMME #11: The Alternative Education Resource Organization Newsletter] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929213939/http://www.educationrevolution.org/aerogramme11.html |date=2011-09-29 }}</ref>
=== Emma Goldman ===
[[File:Emma Goldman 2.jpg|180px|left|thumb|[[Emma Goldman]]]]In an essay entitled "The child and its enemies" [[Lithuanian American|Lithuanian-American]] [[anarcha-feminist]] [[Emma Goldman]] manifested that "The child shows its individual tendencies in its plays, in its questions, in its association with people and things. But it has to struggle with everlasting external interference in its world of thought and emotion. It must not express itself in harmony with its nature, with its growing personality. It must become a thing, an object. Its questions are met with narrow, conventional, ridiculous replies, mostly based on falsehoods; and, when, with large, wondering, innocent eyes, it wishes to behold the wonders of the world, those about it quickly lock the windows and doors, and keep the delicate human plant in a hothouse atmosphere, where it can neither breathe nor grow freely."<ref name="ReferenceD">[[Emma Goldman]]. [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Child_and_its_Enemies "The Child and its enemies."]</ref> Goldman in the essay entitled "The Social Importance of the Modern School" saw that "the school of today, no matter whether public, private, or parochial...is for the child what the prison is for the convict and the barracks for the soldier — a place where everything is being used to break the will of the child, and then to pound, knead, and shape it into a being utterly foreign to itself."<ref name="ReferenceE">[http://www.revoltlib.com/?id=644 "The Social Importance of the Modern School"], [[Emma Goldman]]</ref>
In this way "it will be necessary to realize that education of children is not synonymous with herdlike drilling and training. If education should really mean anything at all, it must insist upon the free growth and development of the innate forces and tendencies of the child. In this way alone can we hope for the free individual and eventually also for a free community, which shall make interference and coercion of human growth impossible."<ref name="ReferenceD"/>
Goldman in her essay on the Modern School also dealt with the issue of [[Sex education]]. She denounced that "educators also know the evil and sinister results of ignorance in sex matters. Yet, they have neither understanding nor humanity enough to break down the wall which puritanism has built around sex...If in childhood both man and woman were taught a beautiful comradeship, it would neutralize the oversexed condition of both and would help woman's emancipation much more than all the laws upon the statute books and her right to vote."<ref name="ReferenceE"/>
==Later 20th century and contemporary times==
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