Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing

Why read it

• You will learn to tell open authority from the hidden kind that shapes a child without anyone noticing
• You will weigh a serious case against hitting and punishing children, made by someone who ran a school
• You will rethink what a child learns about sex, religion and manners when adults teach it through guilt

Who it is for

• A parent unsure whether strict rules or freedom raises happier children
• A teacher who struggles to keep a class interested
• Someone who remembers a harsh childhood and wants to do differently

Contents

1. SUMMERHILL A RADICAL APPROACH TO CHILD REARING
2. A Foreword by Erich Fromm
3. A Word of Introduction
4. ONE SUMMERHILL SCHOOL
5. TWO CHILD REARING
6. THREE SEX
7. FOUR RELIGION AND MORALS
8. FIVE CHILDREN’S PROBLEMS
9. SIX PARENTS’ PROBLEMS
10. SEVEN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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