Summerhill School - Quotations

Quotations

• "I would rather Summerhill produced a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar." -- A.S. Neill
• "No one is wise enough or good enough to mould the character of any child. What is wrong with our sick, neurotic world is that we have been moulded, and an adult generation that has seen two great wars and seems about to launch a third should not be trusted to mould the character of a rat" -- A.S. Neill
• "What cannot be doubted is that a piece of fascinating and valuable educational research is going on here which it would do all educationists good to see" -- Report by Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, 1949
• "I would as soon enroll a child of mine in a brothel as in Summerhill" -- Max Rafferty Summerhill: For and Against. Hart Publishing. 1970. ISBN 0-8055-1075-3.
• "When my first wife and I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school" -- A.S. Neill