Summerhill School

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• stared · Jul 4, 2016 · Recommends

  An obligatory reference: A. S. Neill "Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing" (1960), especially chapter 1 (about the Summerhill school itself). The schools started in 1920s, and sadly, we made no progress in that direction in the last century. Link: https://trisquel.info/files/summerhill-english_1.pdf

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• unalone · Nov 13, 2011 · Recommends

  …right? I don't mind the social networking junk too much either; it's detrimental in the short term but everybody I know is getting weary of how pointless it is. I've been reading A. S. Neill's fantastic Summerhill School, where he details the things he learned after 50 years of teaching children, and he argues that letting children play is essential to their growing up properly. Freedom to play eventually leads to kids…

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• stared · Nov 19, 2015 · Recommends

  For all interested in alternative approaches to education, I recommend A. S. Neill "Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing" (1960), especially chapter 1 (about the Summerhill school itself). The schools started in 1920s, and sadly, we made no progress in that direction in the last century. Link: https://trisquel.info/files/summerhill-english_1.pdf

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• cycomanic · Aug 13, 2020 · Recommends

  For people interested in this topic I highly recommend reading about summerhill school [1] and similar projects. The topic of alternative schooling systems is quite fascinating. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School

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• barry-cotter · Jul 9, 2019 · Recommends

  …books and enjoy them that’s a good thing. The idea that you should take care not to contradict the curriculum is ... Education is meant to be for children, not teachers. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School [2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school

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• eevilspock · Mar 25, 2016 · Mentions

  …1862 essay 'The School at Yasnaya Polyana'. Tolstoy's educational experiments were short-lived, partly due to harassment by the Tsarist secret police. However, as a direct forerunner to A. S. Neill's Summerhill School, the school at Yasnaya Polyana can justifiably be claimed the first example of a coherent theory of democratic education." Politics and Culture in Anarchist Education: The Modern School of New York and…

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