In 1921, Alexander Sutherland Neill wanted to make a school “where children could be free to learn if they wanted to learn, and play when they wanted to play, and make their own rules about living.” Summerhill, a democratic school in Suffolk England, started as an experiment in education, with one main idea “to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.” Neill wanted children to co-exist with teachers as equals in the way of an orchestra, as opposed to an army barracks style of conventional education.Īt the start, the school took on a fair amount of “problem children.
By calling him a damned liar, I was meeting him on his own level.” (A.S. Here was a boy to whom headmasters were stern, moral disciplinarians to be cheated every time. By offering him a cigarette, I was showing him that I approved of his smoking. ‘Thanks’, he stammered, ‘but I don’t smoke, sir.’ ‘Take one, you damned liar’, I said with a smile, and he took one. I noticed that his fingers were yellow with nicotine, so I took out my cigarette packet and offered it to him. He had just come to Summerhill from a typical Public School. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.“Once I asked a boy of fourteen to come and have a chat with me. ↑ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch ( : 4 September 2014), Alexander Sutherland Neill, 1973.↑ "National Records of Scotland: Statutory Registers - Births" database, National Records of Scotland, ScotlandsPeople ( : accessed ), Alexander Suthe Neill, 1886, Forfar citing Reference Number: 288/ 335.He passed away in 1973 at Leiston, Suffolk, England. A.S Neill was a Scottish educationalist, who established the world-renowned progressive school 'Summerhill' in 1921.
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