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Summerhill School, founded in 1921 in Hellerau near Dresden, England by A.S. Neill. Today it is a boarding and day school currently located in Leiston, Suffolk, England, serving primary and secondary education in a democratic fashion. It is now run by Neill's daughter, Zoe Readhead. Image File history File linksMetadata SummerhillSchool. ...
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Dresden, the capital city of the German federal state of Saxony, is situated in a valley on the river Elbe. ...
Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the British Isles Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK...
Alexander Sutherland Neill (October 17, 1883 _ September 23, 1973) was an educationalist recognised as one of the leading pioneers in education. ...
A boarding school is a school where some or all students not only study but also live, amongst their peers but away from their home and family. ...
A day school is an institution where children are given educational instruction only during the day and after which children return to their homes. ...
link titleLeiston is a town in East Suffolk county in East Anglia in the United Kingdom, near Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, about 2 1/2 miles from the seacoast. ...
Suffolk (pronounced SUF-fk) is a large traditional and administrative county in the East Anglia region of eastern England. ...
A democratic school is a school that centers on democratic principles and participatory democracy with full and equal participation from both students and staff. ...
Summerhill is noted for its influential and groundbreaking philosophy that children learn best with freedom from coercion. All lessons are optional, and pupils are free to choose what to do with their time. Neill founded Summerhill with the belief that "the function of a child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live, not a life according to the purpose of an educator who thinks he knows best."
In addition to taking control of their own time, pupils can participate in the self-governing community of the school. School meetings are held four times a week, where pupils and staff alike have an equal voice in the decisions that affect their day-to-day lives, discussing issues and creating or changing school laws.
It is upon these major principles, namely, democracy and equality, that Summerhill School operates. Social equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain respect. ...
Summerhill has had a less than perfect relationship with the British government, and is still the most inspected school in the country. During the 1990s, it was inspected nine times. In March of 1999, following a major inspection from OFSTED (The "OFfice for STandards in EDucation"), the then Secretary of State for Education and Employment, David Blunkett, issued the school with a notice of complaint, which took issue with the schools policy of non-compulsory lessons. Failure to comply with such a notice within six months usually leads to closure; however, Summerhill chose to contest the notice in court. The case went before a special educational tribunal in March 2000, when four days into the hearing, the government's case collapsed, and a settlement was agreed. The pupils who were attending the hearing that day took over the courtroom and held a school meeting to debate whether to accept the settlement, eventually voting unanimously to do so. The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) is a non-ministerial United Kingdom government department, established on 1st September 1992. ...
The Secretary of State for Education and Skills is the chief minister of the Department for Education and Skills in the United Kingdom government. ...
David Blunkett The Right Honourable David Blunkett (born June 6, 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
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A democratic school is a school that centers on democratic principles and participatory democracy with full and equal participation from both students and staff. ...
Books about Summerhill - Summerhill School: A Free Range Childhood, by Matthew Appleton ISBN 1870258460 (UK) ISBN 1885580029 (US) A recent first-hand account of life as a member of staff at Summerhill.
- Summerhill, by A.S. Neill ISBN 0140209409 A book about the school and its philosophy, by the school's founder
- Summerhill: For And Against, by various authors ISBN 020712633 A collection of essays, arguing both in favour and against the schools approach.
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