A.S. Neill

A.S. Neill (born Oct. 17, 1883, Forfar, Forfarshire, Scot.—died Sept. 23, 1973, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Eng.) was a British educator and author who founded the Summerhill School and championed free self-development in the education of children. The son of a schoolteacher, Neill graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an M.A. degree in 1912 and became headmaster of the Gretna Green School in Scotland in 1914. He recorded his initial teaching experiences in the autobiographical novel...