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SUMMERHILL - Best EDUCATION MOVIE! - FULL - 2008

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Film maker Peter Chadwick spent two years filming life at Summerhill for a documentary entitled “How Summerhill Works”. With footage of school life, interviews with kids, staff, ex-pupils and parents the film demonstrates the Summerhill ethos and shows how kids grow, develop and learn with Freedom, but not Licence.
Summerhill is noted for its philosophy that children learn best with freedom from coercion, a philosophy that was promoted by the New Ideals in Education Conferences (1914–37) that helped to define the good modern primary school as child-centred.
The meaning of Summerhill. English and Scottish (Lanarkshire): habitational name from any of various places called with Old English somer 'summer' + hyll 'hill', denoting a hill used for summer grazing, such as Summerhill in Ashburton (Devon).
Summerhill School operates upon the major principles of democracy, equality and freedom. Classes are voluntary at Summerhill. Although most students attend, depending on their age and reasons, children choose whether to go of their own accord and without adult compulsion.
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