JABSUM 11 : Maturity
Getting older is not the same as gaining maturity.
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…
Saturday Summerhill Take Away: Get Those Lazy Kids to Clean Up After Themselves
Do you think young people should be involved in cooking and cleaning? Do you think they should be included in all of the activities in a household or a school? Is Summerhill different from other schools just because it is a democratic school and does that imply that children should be more involved with the day-to-day maintenance of the place? How do you prepare young people for adulthood?
