Neill & Summerhill: a Man and His Work

Neill & Summerhill: a Man and His Work PDF Author: John Walmsley
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Neill & Summerhill: a Man and His Work

Neill & Summerhill: a Man and His Work PDF Author: John Walmsley
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Summerhill School

Summerhill School PDF Author: Alexander Sutherland Neill
Publisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312088606
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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A guide to experimental education, originally published in 1960 and expanded for the 1990s, features a discussion of how American education lags behind the rest of the world and what people can do to change that.

Summerhill

Summerhill PDF Author: Alexander Sutherland Neill
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ISBN: 9780140135596
Category : Child psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Summerhill

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The Last Man Alive

The Last Man Alive PDF Author: Alexander Sutherland Neill
Publisher: Hart Associates
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Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The adventures of a group who survived a poisonous cloud that turned everyone else into stone.

A Conversation About Happiness

A Conversation About Happiness PDF Author: Mikey Cuddihy
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1782393153
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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Orphaned at the age of nine, Mikey Cuddihy left the U.S. to board at an experimental British school. A vivid and intense memoir of coming of age amidst the unraveling social experiment of the late 1960s. When Mikey Cuddihy was orphaned at the age of nine, her life exploded. She and her siblings were sent from New York to board at experimental Summerhill School, in England, and abandoned there. The setting was idyllic, lessons were optional, pupils made the rules. Joan Baez visited and taught Mikey guitar. The late sixties were in full swing, but with total freedom came danger. Mikey navigated this strange world of permissiveness and neglect, forging an identity almost in defiance of it.

Neill of Summerhill (Routledge Revivals)

Neill of Summerhill (Routledge Revivals) PDF Author: Jonathan Croall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135047308
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 531

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A. S. Neill was arguably the most famous child educator of the twentieth century. He was certainly the most controversial. All over the world, countless parents and teachers have been shocked, delighted or inspired by his subversive ideas about education, or by a visit to ‘that dreadful school’ which continues to this day – Summerhill. First published in 1983, this sympathetic but critical exploration of his iconoclastic ideas and personality is the result of interviews with two hundred ex-pupils, parents and teachers about life at Summerhill, and of the practicality of Neill’s philosophy about child freedom. Jonathan Croall has also drawn on many unpublished letters and documents, which help to illuminate Neill’s personal struggles, and his analysis and friendship with Homer Lane, Wilhelm Stekel and Wilhelm Reich. The result is a fascinating and revealing portrait of a remarkable man who, in his absolute determination to be ‘on the side of the child’, remained in permanent opposition to the adult world.

Sit Down and Shut Up

Sit Down and Shut Up PDF Author: Cinque Henderson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250101891
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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On his very first day of school as a substitute teacher, Cinque Henderson was cursed at and openly threatened by one of his students. Not wanting trouble or any broken bones, Henderson called the hall monitor, who escorted the student to the office. But five minutes later the office sent him back with a note that read, “Ok to return to class.” That was it: no suspension, no detention, no phone call home, nothing. Sit Down and Shut Up: How Discipline Can Set Students Free is a passionate and personal analysis of Henderson's year as substitute teacher in some of America’s toughest schools. Students disrespected, yelled at, and threatened teachers, abetted by a school system and political culture that turned a willfully blind eye to the economic and social decline that created the problem. Henderson concludes that the failures of our worst schools are the result of a population in crisis: classrooms are microcosms of all our nation’s most vexing issues of race and class. The legacy and stain of race—the price of generational trauma, the cost of fatherlessness, the failures of capitalism, the false promise of meritocracy—played itself out in every single interaction Henderson had with an aggressive student, an unengaged parent, or a failed administrator. In response to the chaos he found in the classroom, Henderson proposes a recommitment to the notion that discipline—wisely and properly understood, patiently and justly administered—is the only proper route to freedom and opportunity for generations of poor youth. With applications far beyond the classroom, Henderson’s experiences offer novel insights into the pressing racial, social, and economic issues that have shaped America’s cultural landscape. Sure to ignite discussion and controversy, Sit Down and Shut Up provides a frank evaluation of the broken classrooms of America and offers a bold strategy for fixing them.

Manish

Manish PDF Author: Soborno Isaac Bari
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665541121
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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After reading The Love, Purohit Mehta became a fan of its author—a child—and sent letters to Indian universities to invite the child for a book talk. The child rejected many invitations due to conflicts with Imam Jalaluddin Zelgai—who provided Taliban training to American Muslim children, some of whom he abused (like ten-year-old Muhammad Abdul). Eventually, the child changed his mind and traveled to India, but some enemies of his—Muhammad Islam and Muhammad Ullah—attempted to assassinate him. The Purohit noticed and protected the child by taking the bullet. The child held the Purohit’s falling body and said, “You are not a man. You are a Manish.” Upon arrival in New York, the child knocked on the Mecca Mosque door. Suddenly, Imam Zelgai towered over him and said, “Take your chalk and go away.” The child responded, “I’m not here for chalk. I’m here for Abdul.” The name of the child is Soborno Isaac. He calls this story Manish.

American Odyssey

American Odyssey PDF Author: Wilhelm Reich
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466846836
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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A new autobiographical work by one of the most original and controversial thinkers of our time. "I looked up every day from behind the bars to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Her light shone brightly into a dark night." With these words, Wilhelm Reich described his experience as an "enemy alien" imprisoned on Ellis Island in the aftermath of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. American Odyssey, compiled from his correspondence and journals, chronicles Reich's first years in America. They were years of prodigious accomplishment in which he developed the orgone energy accumulator-the so-called orgone box; published his first books in English; made breakthroughs in his investigation of orgone energy in social pathology, physics, astronomy, and cancer; and interested none other than Albert Einstein in testing his theories. America brought a new marriage, a new son, a new group of students, and a new laboratory. But these were years of fierce struggle as well: the denial of an American medical license, the refusal of a patent on the orgone accumulator, and, finally, a slanderous article that would incite the Food and Drug Administration to the dogged attack on Reich that would continue until his death in another prison cell ten years later. American Odyssey reveals more than a period in the life of an embattled scientist. It discloses the social and intellectual life of a country in a tumultuous time in history.