A. S. Neill, founder of Summerhill, the most admired and most
feared of all progressive schools, was famous as a schoolteacher,
educational reformer, and author of illuminating and stylish books
about education and the mind of the child. But few people know he
was also a dedicated, prolific, uninhibited, witty and often
mischievous letter writer. This selection of gems, first published
in 1983, has been chosen from hundreds of his letters by his
biographer. It includes letters about education, children,
politics, writing, fatherhood, the Bomb, old age and death. All the
best, Neill was the familiar ending of his letters to the famous H.
G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Henry Miller, Paul Goodman, Wilhelm
Reich, Homer Lane; to important educators W. B. Curry of
Dartington, John Aitkenhead of Kilquhanity, Bob Mackenzie of
Braehead, Dora Russell of Beacon Hill; to unknown friends, parents,
and even casual correspondents. To read these letters is to share
the company of a great and always delightful man, who wrote each
one with the same commitment and gaiety."
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