![]() Although he passed his first year's program, he said he understood little of the lectures. He then spent what he described as three wretched years as a teacher in a school in Fife, received his teaching certification, and moved on to a school where discipline was easier and his life was somewhat happier for two years.Īt the age of 25 Neill enrolled as a student of agriculture at Edinburgh University. Shortly thereafter, he became a pupil-teacher in his father's school, where he remained for four years. He then worked as an assistant in a dry-goods shop. Because of his inability to progress very far in education, he was the only child in the family who was not sent on to Forfar Academy.Īt the age of 14, Neill went to work as an office boy in an Edinburgh factory, but he became so lonely and homesick that his parents allowed him to return home. Neill received his early education in his father's one-room, five-class village school. ![]() A Failure at Schoolīorn in Forfar, Scotland, on Oct. The Scottish psychologist Alexander Sutherland Neill (1883-1973) is most famous as the founder of Summerhill School and as the developer of its radical child-centered theory of education. ![]()
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