biography
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Neill, A(lexander) S(utherland)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1883–1973)
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| biography:
| Educationist and writer, born in Kingsmuir, Fife, E Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh, taught in many different schools, and was editor of New Era (1920–1). He started a community school near Salzburg, which eventually settled as Summerhill School in Leiston, Suffolk (1927), a co-educational progressive school that ‘began as an experiment and became a demonstration’. Summerhill became a school for children, especially Americans, from higher income groups. Many pupils were ‘difficult’ and Neill spent a lot of time in psychotherapy, at first called ‘private lessons’. He was the most extreme and radical of British progressive schoolmasters and a great publicist, publishing over 20 books, from A Dominie's Log (1916) to Neill! Neill! Orange Peel! (1973). |
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