6/22/2023 0 Comments Summerhill and as neill![]() ![]() The religion that makes people good makes people bad, but the religion known as freedom makes all people good, for it destroys the inner conflict that makes people devils. ![]() I let them form their own values and the values are invariably good and social. And I am no genius, I just refuse to guide the steps of children. ![]() In six months they are happy, healthy children who do no evil. Children come to my school, little devils, hating the world, destructive, unmannerly, lying, thieving, bad-tempered. Our attempts to mold the child will turn the god into a devil. Summerhill is an independent British boarding school run as a democratic community based on the principle that school should be made to fit the child, rather than the other way around. Neill (1883-1973), founded an experimental school called Summerhill which, a hundred years later, is still thriving. ![]()
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