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Scholars have interpreted Neill's harsh childhood as the impetus for his later philosophy, though his father was not shown to be harsher to Allie (as Neill was known [3]) than to anyone else. [5] Neill's mother insisted on high standards for her family, and demanded comportment to set the family apart from the townspeople. [6]
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]
Summerhill School is an independent (i.e. fee-charging) day and boarding school in Leiston, Suffolk, England.It was founded in 1921 by Alexander Sutherland Neill with the belief that the school should be made to fit the child, rather than the other way around.
A.S. Neill's A Dominie's Log is a diary of his first year as headteacher at Gretna Green Village School, during 1914–15. It is an autobiographical novel. [ 1 ] He changed a hard working, academic school controlled by corporal punishment and the fear of the authority of the teacher into one of happiness, play and children controlling their ...
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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.
Sam Neill. Months after he first shared his cancer diagnosis, Sam Neill is offering an update on his health status. The 76-year-old, who revealed in his recent memoir, ...
Draw the Line, led by Hingham’s Neill Byrnes, headlines The C Note in Hull on Saturday night. The show begins at 9 p.m., and tickets are $15 in advance, or $25 at the door the night of the show.