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Alexander Sutherland Neill (17 October 1883 – 23 September 1973) was a Scottish educator and author known for his school, Summerhill, and its philosophy of freedom from adult coercion and community self-governance.
Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing is a book about the English boarding school Summerhill School by its headmaster A. S. Neill. It is known for introducing his ideas to the American public. It was published in America on November 7, 1960, by the Hart Publishing Company and later revised as Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood ...
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.
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. Notes
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.
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
Neill is thinking of the culture of childhood and schooling, not of the school as a place for effective, efficient methods and positive measurable outcomes. The story is about him trying to 'create an attitude'. Indeed, after ten years of teaching, in 1921 he creates a school, a community, that is the hero, Summerhill School.
Headmaster Robert Barker guides third through sixth graders in a discussion of current events as part of the social studies program. In 1960 following the publication of A.S. Neill's book Summerhill [1] [circular reference]: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing about a radical, free-school in England, a group of parents and educators in the New York City area began talking about trying to start ...