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"A. S. Neill was probably the most famous school teacher of the twentieth century. His school, Summerhill, founded in 1921, attracted admiration and criticism from around the world, and became an emblem of radical school reform and child-centred education. Neill claimed that he was a practical man, but this book reveals that Summerhill expresses a comprehensive and distinctive set of ideas. Whether he wanted to be or not, Neill was an important educational thinker with a powerful influence on current educational approaches and philosophy. A. S. Neill is the first book to examine this…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2013Continuum · 216 pages · 9781847060877
Neill, alexander sutherland, 1883-1973Educators, europeScotland, biographyInfluenceCriticism and interpretationEducationPhilosophyExperimental methods