[act-ma] 4/11 Free Range Childhood: Summerhill (Wed)

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Education for LIBERATION!

A FREE RANGE CHILDHOOD:
Self Regulation at Summerhill School
by Matthew Appleton

Matthew Appleton, author of
A FREE RANGE CHILDHOOD,
will speak at the Lucy Parsons Center
in Boston on Wednesday, April 11.

Matthew Appleton describes his adventures in the little country school
that defeated the British government=EDs Education Establishment.

A Free Range Childhood is the first in-depth account of the world-famous
Summerhill School since school founder A.S. Neill=EDs classic book,
Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing, became a national
bestseller in the 1960s.  Appleton was a houseparent (residential
advisor) at Summerhill for nine years.  His book provides a detailed,
lively description of daily life at Summerhill and reflects thoughtfully
on the unusual educational philosophy guiding this visionary experiment
in education.

Summerhill is a radically innovative boarding school in Leiston,
England, founded in 1921 by A.S. Neill, a Scottish schoolmaster who
rebelled against the harsh discipline imposed on generations of students
in traditional British schools.

At Summerhill, children are not required to attend classes.  They are
not graded, and they are not punished for violating adults=ED arbitrary
demands for order and discipline.  Community rules and decisions are
determined democratically in all-school meetings, with every child
having a voice and a vote.  Relationships among people, young and old,
are open, honest, and direct.

A Summerhill Society was formed to promote this new educational vision
in the U.S., and by the end of the 1960s literally hundreds of "free
schools" had been founded across the country, many directly inspired by
Summerhill.

Matthew Appleton will be touring the northeastern U.S. to promote his
new book.  He will give a talk and sign copies on Wednesday evening,
April 11, at 7:00 pm, at:

The Lucy Parsons Center
(Boston's Independent Radical Bookstore)
549 Columbus Ave.
Boston, MA 02118
(617) 267-6272

Symphony stop on Green Line
Mass Ave stop on Orange Line
1=87 blocks east of Mass Ave on Columbus Ave

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