High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Modern Schools, also called Ferrer Schools, were US schools, established in the early twentieth century, that were modeled after the Escuela Moderna of Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, the Catalan educator and anarchist. They were an important part of the anarchist, free education, socialist, and labor movements in the U.S., intended to educate the working-classes from a secular, liberal, class- conscious perspective. The Modern Schools imparted day-time academic classes for children, and night- time continuing-education lectures for adults