by A. S. Neill · ISBN 9782070322848
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«Libres enfants de Summerhill» is the educational essay by A. S. Neill, published by Gallimard in paperback (337 pages, in French).
Summerhill, an English boarding school founded in 1921, is run as a democracy with equal voting rights for pupils and teachers. A. S. Neill, its founder, explains his philosophy of self-regulation: children can choose whether to attend class and live together without imposing on others, in contrast to the traditional school which, according to Neill, shapes docile people.
Translated from the English by Michelline Laguilhomie, with a preface by Maud Mannoni. The original work was published in 1960 as Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing.
Recommended for educators, pedagogy students and readers interested in alternative teaching models.
Alexander Sutherland Neill was a Scottish educator and author known for his school, Summerhill, and its philosophy of freedom from adult coercion and community self-governance. Raised in Scotland, Neill taught at several schools before attending the University of Edinburgh in 1908–1912. He took two jobs in journalism before World War I, and taught at Gretna Green Village School in the second year of the war, writing his first book, A Dominie's Log (1915), as a diary of his life there as head teacher. He joined a Dresden school in 1921 and founded Summerhill on returning to England in 1924. Summerhill gained renown in the 1930s and then in the 1960s–1970s, due to progressive and counter-culture interest. Neill wrote 20 books. His top seller was the 1960 Summerhill, read widely in the free school movement from the 1960s.
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