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  • A DOMINIE'S LOG

    by A.S. Neill ...
    Alexander Sutherland Neill was born in Forfar in the N.E, of Scotland on 17 October 1883 (d. 23/9/1973) to George and Mary Neill. He was raised in an austere, Calvinist house and instilled with values of fear, guilt, and adult and divine authority, which he later repudiated. His father was the village dominie (Scottish schoolmaster) of Kingsmuir, near Forfar in eastern Scotland; his mother, too, ... Read more

    $3.41 USD

  • THE PROBLEM PARENT

    by A.S. Neill ...
    When Mr. Neill was correcting the proofs of The Problem Child, he realized suddenly that he had written the wrong book. “There isn’t a problem child,” he said, “there is only a problem parent.” That was some years ago, and then he had no time to tell the problem parent what he thought of him . . . and her. Now the book of the parent has been written. Mr. Neill has been called the only genius in ... Read more

    $6.82 USD

  • A DOMINIE ABROAD

    by A.S. Neill ...
    Dissatisfied with traditional schooling, with its lack of freedom, democracy, and self-determination, A. S. Neill began searching for a place to establish his own school and to experiment with his developing ideas, gathering what was best in the educational systems of various nations. In 1921 he became a co-director of the Dalcroze School in Hellerau, a suburb of Dresden, Germany. Part of an ... Read more

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  • Is Scotland Educated?

    by A. S. Neill ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Scotland
    Originally published in 1936, and with more than a slightly tongue-in-cheek tone at times, the author of this book declares that Scotland is not educated but merely learned. This book does not deal with education in its narrowest sense: it ranges from the Kirk to Haggis, Tartans and Burns, Whisky and repressed sex in its discussion, proclaiming Calvinism as the root of most of Scotland’s evils. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • A DOMINIE IN DOUBT

    by A.S. Neill ...
    One day when re-reading A Dominie's Log, its author decided that a book is out of date five minutes after it is written. In other words, he was in doubt—terrible and perplexing doubt. Do I really understand children? he asked himself. Are my ideas upon education right or wrong ? He decided that he had not sufficiently studied the psychology of children and that, in consequence, he had been guilty ... Read more

    $3.41 USD

  • A DOMINIE DISMISSED

    by A.S. NEILL ...
    In consequence of the Dominie’s go-as-you-please methods of educating village children, the inevitable happens he is dismissed, giving place to an approved disciplinarian.The unhappy Dominie, forced to leave his bairns, seeks to enlist but the doctor discovers that his lungs are affected, and he is ordered an open-air life.He returns as a cattleman to the village where he has previously been a ... Read more

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  • A DOMINIE’S FIVE

    or FREE SCHOOL!

    by A.S. Neill ...
    In 1921 Scottish teacher A.S. Neill  moved to Hellerau on the outskirts of Dresden where he co-founded an International School to pursue his own ideas on education: that the child’s happiness should be the paramount consideration in deciding its upbringing, a happiness which grows from a sense of personal freedom. After reading what was at the time considered a popular and exciting story — King ... Read more

    $6.82 USD

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