From the book: "The boys happy to Summerhill" and Neil Alexander . Red
Summerhill is a school founded in 1921 near Leiston (a hundred miles from London) by Neil Alexander and his wife.
The school is attended by pupils aged five to fifteen or sixteen who generally come from foreign countries. The housings are based on age and each group is responsible for an assistant, But besides not subject to any inspection the rooms no one watches, that are left completely free to do what they want. The lessons are optional, children can attend or help it, for years, if they so desire, but there is only a time for teachers.
Those who come to Summerhill from childhood follow the lessons without problems of any kind, while those from other schools swear that they never attend classes as bestial. Playing, bicycle, are among the feet of others, but stay away from each lesson, the time needed to overcome this hatred is proportional to the disgust that has remained from the last school attended, on average, this period is three months.
A Summerhill no class assignments and for all teaching staff of university entrance exams are a curse, but they can not refuse to teach children that they wish to access precisely the subjects required in the various faculties.
Summerhill School is perhaps the happiest in the world that there is. There are no slackers, and cases of nostalgia for their home are rare, too rare that children picchino and quarrel among themselves, because children have grown up in freedom much less hate than to give vent to repressed. From hatred comes hatred and love is born of love. Love means keeping a positive attitude of approval and this is essential in any school, you can not be on the side of children and simultaneously punish and scare them. A Summerhill children know that their behavior is observed, and all have the same rights. The children make friends with strangers more easily if you do not know what fear. Confidentiality English is, after all, only fear here is the reason why people are even more sensitive than the rich. It 'important to understand that the child must live the his life, not that his anxious parents think they should live, and attempts to guide the interference by adults only produce generations of automata. You can not teach children music, or whatever, without changing them in some way in adults with no will of its own. In this way are transformed into people who passively accept the status quo , a good thing for a company that needs employees who sit without protest in front of melancholy desks, committed without personality, people who go up automatically every morning on 8:30 train, a company in short, which stands on the shoulders of poor weak little men terrified, scared to death of conformists.
The purpose of life according to Neil is happiness, and be happy means to try something interesting. Education should prepare for life in what our culture has not been very successful. Our education, politics, economy lead to war. Our medicines have not won diseases, religion did not abolish the theft and damage.
the family the child is taught continuously forgetting that, like adults, they learn only what they want to learn. All awards, the examinations, the good grades choke the free expression of personality, only the pedants argue that education is made on the books!
books at school are the least important thing, a child should only be able to read, write and count, the rest must be all theater, toys, clay, painting, sports, and freedom. Most of the work that adolescents are in school is pure waste of time, energy and patience. Young removes the right to play, play, play again, put old heads on young shoulders.
It 's time to challenge the current notion of school study. E 'given to dispute that a boy should learn the matematica, la storia, la geografia, un po' di scienze, un po' di arte e una certa quantità di letteratura. E' ora di rendersi conto che il ragazzo nutre ben poco interesse per queste cose. Non si vuole denigrare l'istruzione, ma l'istruzione deve avvenire dopo il gioco; e lo studio deve avvenire deliberatamente condito con il gioco per renderlo appetibile. L'istruzione è importante, ma non per chiunque. Chi ha capacità creative impara quel che vuole imparare per impadronirsi degli strumenti che la sua originalità e il suo genio richiedono. Non si può sapere quali capacità creative vengano distrutte nella scuola dando tutta l'importanza all'istruzione. Higher education and university degrees are not intended to address the ills of society: a neurotic educated is no better than a neurotic uneducated.
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