Australian Left Review

Article Title

Books: 1. Summerhill / Risinghill: Death of a Comprehensive School

Authors

Grant McGregor

Abstract

TO ANYONE even vaguely interested in education, the appearance of A. S. Neill’s Summerhill must seem long overdue. The original Gollancz hard-back edition (1962) contained a foreword by Erich Fromm which is omitted here, but it was important more as a comment on Neill the man than as a prelude to the ideas which motivate him.