Summerhill: A Radical Approach To Childhood

Has anyone read this? I just started it today... Amazing common sense against the machine that I absolutley reccomend to everyone.

It's about A.S. Neill's Summerhill school, which seems like a great idea. It's sad that society is so set in its ways and scared of change that schools like these can't be publically funded and available to everyone. Here's the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School

There was one thing I was wondering about, though. The people who run this school today obviously want an educational system that has more respect for people's autonomy. So they're running a school that works on non-authoritarian principles, because legally, everyone has to go to school or at least be homeschooled according to certain government standards. If these laws didn't exist, though, would the people who run Summerhill still think that everyone should attend and graduate from high school? Or would they say that school wasn't for everyone, and that some people are better off learning from the world at large? Obviously, this is a different type of school. Freeschools are different. But what about the underlying issue that schooling itself practically has a monopoly over the natural human process of learning? I'm probably not saying this as clearly as I could because I'm kind of tired but maybe someone will know what I'm talking about anyway.

A.S. Neill, with a great introduction by Erich Fromm. I believe it came out in 1960. Poems by Blake and Gibran.

The man seems to have some rather backwards ideas about homosexuality.
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