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Summerhill
196627 min 58 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Dennis Miller
Production: Cecily Burwash
A visit to a school without fixed rules, where students study as they wish, and are their own masters. A co-educational English boarding school, Summerhill was founded by Alexander Neill a half-century ago. In the film he explains his objectives, and from the activities of the children at work and play can be seen how his methods work. School, he says, should put preparation for life ahead of learning.
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Subject categories
- Education > Child EducationForeign CountriesPortraitsSecondary EducationTeaching Methods
- Foreign Countries > Great Britain
Credits
- director
- Dennis Miller
- photography
- Dennis Miller
- producer
- Cecily Burwash
- editing
- Kathleen Shannon
- sound editing
- Kathleen Shannon