Summerhill Takeaway: Equality
Equality is at the heart of Summerhill. If you have difficulties with the Summerhill idea, it is possible that you are struggling with equality. Here I want to explain the way equality works in the school.
Keeping it in the Family: Summerhill School as a Business
Summerhill School is a family business. This is not the way one normally thinks about schools, but Summerhill is far from being a normal school. In this post I want to talk about the family and explain why, in its own unusual way, it works for Summerhill to be in the family. The current Principal…
Gangsters: I will never apologise for being me
The idea of the “gangster age” is pure Neill. I haven’t come across the theory anywhere else, but it comes out of Neill’s overtly psychological reading of child development. Today I want to talk about the gangster age in Summerhill Basics because it is such a fundamental part of the school. It seems to me…
John Walmsley: As It Was
This is a short post to fill in as I am sick and am only up to looking at pictures: old Summerhill pictures. They are cool.
