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Freedom to Learn (FTL) is an education program in Michigan that helps schools create high performing, student-centered learning environments by providing each student and teacher with direct, consistent access to 21st century learning tools.
In 2002 the Michigan Legislature and governor dedicated state and federal (Title II, D) funds to a Demonstration Phase education project. Seeing the positive early results, the state expanded the program in 2004. Michigan allocated over $30 million to include over 23,000 students in 100 school districts and 191 buildings - primarily middle schools.
- Freedom to learn is also "the freedom of the learning generation." Leo Tolstoy wrote:
Don't be afraid ! There will be Latin and rhetoric, and they will exist in another hundred years, simply because the medicine is bought, so we must drink it (as a patient said). I doubt whether the thoughts which I have expressed perhaps indistinctly, awkwardly, inconclusively, will become generally accepted in another hundred years; it is not likely that within a hundred years all those ready-made institutions-schools, gymnasia, and universities -- will die, and that within that time there will grow freely formed institutions, having for their basis the freedom of the learning generation.
— "Education and Instruction," Leo Tolstoy, 1860.