Scotland‘s national home education support organisation Schoolhouse has announced it is to host a major conference in Arbroath, Angus, on Friday 12 September to mark International Freedom in Education Day 2008.

The one day conference, Learning Without Limits: a celebration of choice, diversity and freedom in education, will focus on the broad theme of freeing education from the confines of traditional schooling and will form part of a weekend programme of informal networking, arts and heritage activities for families and interested individuals from across the UK and Europe.

The keynote conference speakers include John Taylor Gatto from New York, one of the world’s most powerful and persuasive proponents of educational reform who will challenge many long held beliefs about the benefits of modern schooling in his keynote presentation, Weapons of Mass Instruction. John Taylor Gatto was three times New York City teacher of the year and is a renowned international speaker and author of many books, including Dumbing Us Down: the hidden history of compulsory schooling and The Underground History of American Education.