By Jonathan Croall
ISBN-10: 0531098222
ISBN-13: 9780531098226
ISBN-10: 1138813354
ISBN-13: 9781138813359
A. S. Neill, founding father of Summerhill, the main in demand and such a lot feared of all innovative colleges, used to be recognized as a schoolteacher, academic reformer, and writer of illuminating and classy books approximately schooling and the brain of the kid. yet few humans understand he was once additionally a committed, prolific, uninhibited, witty and sometimes mischievous letter author. this feature of gemstones, first released in 1983, has been selected from enormous quantities of his letters via his biographer. It contains letters approximately schooling, young children, politics, writing, fatherhood, the Bomb, previous age and demise. ‘All the easiest, Neill’ used to be the usual finishing of his letters to the recognized – H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Henry Miller, Paul Goodman, Wilhelm Reich, Homer Lane; to big educators – W. B. Curry of Dartington, John Aitkenhead of Kilquhanity, Bob Mackenzie of Braehead, Dora Russell of Beacon Hill; to unknown associates, mom and dad, or even informal correspondents. To learn those letters is to percentage the corporate of an excellent and continually pleasant guy, who wrote each with a similar dedication and gaiety.
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