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Neill credited Summerhill's environment instead of himself for the school's reformatory successes. [4] Neill used to offer psychoanalytic therapy ("private lessons", since he was not a licensed therapist [16]) for children who arrived as delinquents from other institutions, but later found love, affirmation and freedom to be better cures. [4]
Summerhill received most of its public attention in two waves: the 1920s/30s and 1960s/70s. In particular, the 1960 American edition of Neill's writings, Summerhill, made the school into an example for a wide public, and led to an American movement with copycat schools.
Summerhill School, 1993. Summerhill is A. S. Neill's "aphoristic and anecdotal" account of his "famous" "early progressive school experiment in England" founded in the 1920s, Summerhill School. [1] The book's intent is to demonstrate the origins and effects of unhappiness, and then show how to raise children to avoid this unhappiness.
Fifty Years of Freedom: A Study of the Development of the Ideas of A. S. Neill is a 1972 intellectual biography of the British pedagogue A. S. Neill by Ray Hemmings. It traces how Homer Lane, Wilhelm Reich, Sigmund Freud and others influenced Neill as he developed the "Summerhill idea", the philosophy of child autonomy behind his Summerhill School.
Ena May Neill (née Ena May Wooff, formerly Ena May Wood; 29 May 1910 – 26 October 1997) was a British head teacher at Summerhill School.She managed the school for years on behalf of the founder, A. S. Neill, before she became the head officially in 1973.
Neill of Summerhill is a 1983 biography of the educator A. S. Neill and his Summerhill School written by Jonathan Croall and published by Knopf Doubleday.
Homer Lane's Little Commonwealth influenced the foundation of Alexander S. Neill's Summerhill School. Lane's foremost disciple was his patient, Alexander S. Neill. Neill claimed that he was particularly impressed by Lane's ideas about an experimental self-governing community for young delinquents since it eliminates the negative effects of ...
The oldest Democratic school still in existence is the boarding school Summerhill, located in Leiston (Suffolk, England). Summerhill was founded in Germany in 1921 by the Scottish educationalist A. S. Neill, then moved to England, and still exists today. [17]