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"Get a ladder. I come up too far, then the power was cut!"
Startling America with his advanced ideas on Bringing Up Junior is 64-year-old Alexander Neill, he admaster of the do-as-you-like Summerhill School at Leiston, Suffolk. Mr Neill is on a lecture visit to the U.S.A.; here is an American view of→
ALEXANDER NEILL'S 'DREADFUL SCHOOL'
NEILL'S LEXANDER
Summerhill is Britain's All school problems aro father was a strlet Scot- most progressive school. At brought before the meeting and,
suitable punishments (for tish schoolmaster, who his school, ("That' dreadful offenes such as excessive used to spank his children School," he likes to call it), rowdyism or chronic stealing) rather repetitiously.
are voted by a show of hands,
there is no discipline, except for such rules as the children Iny down in their weekly mootings.
Young Neill developed a fear of his father that haunted him until early manhood. Years The children are permitted to later, when he began studying swear, steal, smash things up, child psychology, he decided to lie, play hookey or do anything. produce children who would go else that, in Schoolmoster Neill's through life free from fear judgment, will rid them of in and who would never need to be hibitions. psycho-analysed.
found a school of his own, to
IL
In 1921, in a rambling, red- brick Victorian house with | rambling garden, he opened his famed progressive Summerhill School for boys and girls, where 70 sons and daughters of middle-class parents enjoy its anusual atmosphere. "The art
of teaching." Neill decided, "is the art of leaving children ulone".
It's the bright boys.
we must get on the farms.
THE Industrial Revolution has passed into history. The Agricultural Revolu-
tion is at hand.
to farmers?
And how does the scheme appeal The conscientious farmer who tries to teach his pup the job finds it somewhat disrupting to his labour force to have to detail one man to do some work with an- other one to supervise him.
The less-conscientious farmer re- gards it all as a labour.
"Talking rot'
by
the counell. Once he tried to
OFTEN Neill is voled down Introduce autoantle Anes for swear- tmk. He took a shrewd line: "Why should I suffer if some fat- a prospec- head swears in front of tive parent? It's not a moral ques- tion at all; it is purely Anancial. You swear and I logo a pupil."
Said a 14-year-old: "Neill is talk- Ink rot. If the parent is shocked he doesn't believe in of anyway." The council decided
go on swearing.
At Summerhill, "inhibitions" are a prime preoccupation. Dis cipline, Neil believes, is "a sub-
knowledge stitute for n children."
No examinations
ΠΟ
Summerhill
to
It is Neill's belief that it is better to let children swear than to repress this enthusiasm; he finds that I pre- It is the sently wears itself out.
same, he feels, with other repres
sions. THE school teaches the usual British public-school curricu-
Says Mrs Neill: "A small boy will lam, but in a way that would sometimes walk in here, fix me with
stupid- make most public teachers' hair a glare and say, "You
But it doesn't mean anything to me. stand on end. There are
I know he's working up some hale fel- examinations (says Headmaster he has. Sometimes the little Neill: "They are easy methods low returns and says something else, experimentally. Mrs Neill fails to of discovering what isn't worth react, and the boy is supposed discovering"). There is no com- lose his little inhibition." pulsion to attend classes. Saya plump, pleasant Mrs Neill: "The about Summerhill. It is discussed young children are so terribly freely and unemotionally. There is active with their own interests, no specific sex instruction but
answers to anything he asks about. they often do not attend school child is given simple, straightforward much until they reach the age of 12."
Sex
arouses the most
to
curlocity
Theory on babies
NEILL'S
n
the
The big event of the school
theories make the for- We shared sex bidding of form of cheap week in the Friday night meet- ing of the general assembly.
among the students out of the ques- Even if a trainee is reported as Neill believes that it is impos. tion. But he explains to them that unsatisfactory by the training farmer sible to be progressive unless it any girl should have a baby the he is not tactfully released from his the children govern themselves school would be closed by
19 whisked of to vocation. He
that students completely. The general meet- Government. Neill also points out economically another unsuspecting farmer.
ing is presided over by unable to support a baby, The experienced form
Now let us get down to realities. student chairman. Each child This approach seems to prevent labourer has always been the
There is only one way to train a most skilled workman in
farmworker, and that is to train him has a voto. The vote of u Britain. In the minds of men as a rule be for a full 12 months from boyhood. All else may be in four-year-old counts just and in terms of money he is at in order that the trainee may darkness, but the future of the land much as Neill's last coming into his own.
Agriculture, for centuries the Cinderella, has now become the Fairy Godmother of our indus- tries. Never bas there been such opportunity, or such neces- sity, for using the right men.
Never has there been such a lack of imagination in coping with the matter.
BRUCE BLUNT
see the four seasons round.”
Is bright.
would
There are plenty of boys of 13 would be willing to start on IT does not seem to have oc- wwwhose parents curred to anyone that it be willing to let them. takes many more than four seasons to learn the first things about farming.
The answer
LET us reopen the village schools and staff them with people who may have no degrees or diplomas, can but who have real understanding
of the land.
If you were to ask any farmer or farmworker how much be learned in "one year on farm, the answer, couched in The one concerted effort to the politest terms, wouki
Hand-les-in-the-Government. training scheme for farm-
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Yet sume of these tralness suffering from the delusion
Let the young farm apprentices schools for certain be attend these
hours so that they may have a love and knowledge of the land instilled in-them--
are
that Some form of apprenticeship to AT 12 NOON | workers. Even official spokes- they are being groomed for
whiteh the farming should be devised men admit that this is some higher walls of farming life, such shall be as honoured as was ony op- 2.40, 7.00 &
prenticeship in other crafts. It is 9.40 P.M. thing of a flop. The response as those of bailiff or smallholder,
has been discouraging. The re-
As it faites a good many years to the bright boys who are wanted on
the land. sults have been irritating to the become mildly proficient in the
job. It lower walks of firm.ng ilfe, and as Farming is a long-term farming community.
the number of balls' jobs which, is only by taking a long-term view go begging in this country are few, or it that we can build up its forces these dreams might as well be dis. to the utmost, so that this country and its people shall live well on the pelled.
best that our great farmlands can The whole approach is unrealistic, yield.
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The scheme BRIEFLY, the scheme is this:
If you did any work of if only because an agricultural national importance during the worker of 20-30 years' experience in lust war, you may apply for in- not going to take orders kindly from clusion-in-the-scheme. If you a freshman, are passed by a selection board, you are allocated to a farmer for a year,
The waste
teacher's.
Ste-Miam
Intercourse.
as
or any other
"In Chipping Codbury, Mr. Mandlah, we don't usually kick off with a signature tune"
nre
controversial Religion is another subject. Says Mrs Neill: "There here who children are many probably would not know who you
very
meant by Christ, except hazily." But headmaster Neill says that his is one of the few schools that Christ would have approved of. We live "We don't teach religion.
means R," says Neill, "If religion anything, it means giving out love. Children at Summerhill ure loved."
Another Important thing at Sum- merhill is the private lessons (PLA) given by leadniaster Neill to malad- really justed children. These are individual psycho-analytic sessions. Neill may send for a child, but profers to have the child come him.
he
to
Typical of his method, is his treat- ment of a little girl who came to him just and announced that she had
desk. "Well," atolen £5 from his Fald Neill, looking at his watch, "you'll have to hurry if you want to spend it before the store closes." The tle girl run off and spent the £5, but, says Nelli, "she never stole again."
By courtesy of Thine Magazine. Copy- righi 1947 by Time Incorporated, Now York.]
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
Canon. Yes, avers
breeding and rearing of stock In addition to these simple figures, is evolution and the survival of the murmured words of warm approba- Tarara
Her face became majestic as she
CCORDING to the. Inst available)
of what is going on? A
figures there are 2,039 men in ARE noses growing longer? customers. Behind, the hundsome a clear idee to give the public such To quote the. Ministry of
Four door marked "Private: Director's will tell you. By droning statistics training under the scheme. In the
of four girls were Labour's pamphlet on the sub- course of a year the training farmer people with extravagantly long omce,"
busily that mixit romantic brancļi
Every time they ject, the training "will include pays 60 percent of their wages, the noses passed ane, one after at work cutting up old felt carpets 'pseudo-science.
or "2164,- und deftlyface hats. Before the tall 000,000,"a
fashioning them into the mumble "12,000,000, the cultivation of arable crops country pays the other 40 percent another, the other day.
lash of darkness in of all kinds (cereals, roots, on to another year in an agricultural Especially proficient pupils can pass
Perhaps they were sham noses for new | greenstuffs); dairy farming; the college at the antion's expense.
some carnival. If they were real mirrors ladies were trying on the thrown on the entire situation.
Anished
while the Captain articles, noses, scientist would say that this (cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, we come across come rather start-Attest rolled into one."
In order to
tion, which the more adventurous 10 etc.): fruit farming; and in- lng ones. No fewer than 2,473 men smell out food, noses grow longer, customers received as compliments tensive market gardening....
hals. "Lovely!" are marked down as "Training ter- and we shall all end up with nares to themselves rather than to the sang..
would Fay necke as long as giralles
(which
the Perfectly lovely!" "Does it suit me?" "Where possible the instruc- minated before end of course,"
owe their length to a passion for queried an ugly brunette, with one tion will cover auch farming In other words, they have been tender leaves on tree-tops) or with
waste the country's trunks like elephants. By the way, of the tiny bits of felt stuck over crafts as hedging, ditching, allowed to
money before disappearing.
when a gasfitter was mendait Dar- her left eye, "Sult you?" replied the thatching, dry-walling, and
Of those who have passed into win's meter there was an explosion. Captain. "Why a broken conlseutils maintenance, simple repair and agricultural colleges, 38, or more Darwin was knocked out, but the would sult you." operation of farm machinery of than 25 percent of the total in such asfitter with mechanical knowledge and completion of course." experience.
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So these, too, have lived, for year partly at public expense upon "This training, given under the land, and wholly at our experve for their period in college before actual working conditions, will silently drifting away.
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