His top seller was the 1960 Summerhill, read widely in the free school movement from the 1960s. Summerhill gained renown in the 1930s and then in the 1960s–1970s, due to progressive and counter-culture interest.
He joined a Dresden school in 1921 and founded Summerhill on returning to England in 1924. He took two jobs in journalism before World War I, and taught at Gretna Green Village School in the first year of the war, writing his first book, A Dominie's Log (1915), as a diary of his life there as head teacher. The book was more influential in the United States, West Germany, and Japan than in Great Britain. Summerhill: A Radical Approach To Child-Rearing NEILL Summerhill - A. Neill’s principal book about his educational methods, Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing (1960), stimulated debates about alternatives to conventional schooling. Raised in Scotland, Neill taught at several schools before attending the University of Edinburgh in 1908–1912. Neill See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by A.S.
Founding Summerhill School, advocacy of personal freedom for children, progressive educationĪlexander 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. This unique book contains key extracts from Neills classic text Summerhill, a worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1962, and features contributions.
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