Neill of Summerhill : the permanent rebel
Croall, Jonathan1983
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From the evidence, Croall traces the origins of Neill's ideas to his unhappy childhood as the son of the strap-wielding village dominie (schoolmaster), who had no use for his unbookish son and sent him off to work at the age (14) when his brothers were sent to the Academy. (""I was obviously the inferior article,"" Neill has written.) It was his early dislike of books and his preference for the work of the hands, notes Croall, that accounted for the determined anti-intellectual atmosphere at Summerhill: Neill was known to snatch books from the hands of pupils, admonishing them to ""go off and do something!""; he couldn't accept that the children might make other uses of their freedom than he would. (Ironically, though, Neill himself ended up writing a total of 20 of those offending books.)
Main title:
Neill of Summerhill : the permanent rebel / Jonathan Croall.
Author:
Croall, Jonathan, author
Publisher:
London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.
Collation:
xi, 436 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Audience:
syu
ISBN:
07100930049780710093004
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
biographieseducationAlexander NeillSuffolkLeistonBoarding schools, Summerhill School.Neill, AS. BiographiesTEACHERSSUMMERHILL SCHOOLEDUCATIONSCHOOLS
BRN:
515299
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