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A. S. Neill. Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing was written by A. S. Neill and published by Hart Publishing Company in 1960. [1] In a letter to Neill, New York publisher Harold Hart suggested a book specific for America devised of parts from four of Neill's previous works: The Problem Child, The Problem Parent, The Free Child, and That Dreadful School. [4]
He took two jobs in journalism before World War I, and taught at Gretna Green Village School in the second year of the war, writing his first book, A Dominie's Log (1915), as a diary of his life there as head teacher. He joined a Dresden school in 1921 and founded Summerhill on returning to England in 1924. Summerhill gained renown in the 1930s ...
"A Revolutionary in Education (Rev. of Neill of Summerhill)". The Christian Science Monitor. Boston. ISSN 0882-7729. ProQuest 1037949744. "Rev. of Neill of Summerhill". Choice. 21: 620. December 1983. ISSN 0009-4978. Swartz, Ronald (1986). "Summerhill Revisited: Searching for a Perspective on the Life and Work of A. S. Neill". Educational Studies.
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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.
Summer Hill, Sandwell, West Midlands; Summerhill, an alternative name for Somerhill House, Kent; Summerhill School, a school founded by Alexander Sutherland Neill, now located in Leiston, England; Summerhill, Neill's book about the school, published for American audiences; Summerhill School, a school located in Kingswinford, West Midlands, England