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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]
Neill of Summerhill: The Permanent Rebel. ISBN 0-7100-9300-4. — This is mainly a biography of Neill but of course has plenty of material about the school and Neill's ideas; J F Saffange / Peter Lang (1985). Libres regards sur Summerhill. L'oeuvre pédagogique de A-S Neill. ISBN 3-261-04017-3. Hussein Lucas (2011). After Summerhill.
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]
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 ...
Neill of Summerhill is a 1983 biography of the educator A. S. Neill and his Summerhill School written by Jonathan Croall and published by ... The Free Lance-Star. p ...
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.
Neill is an Irish surname, and may refer to A. S. Neill (1883-1973), British educator and author; Alan Webster Neill (1868-1960), Canadian politician;
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.