Since the beginning of time and still today children are taught to obey their elders whether it is the mailman, Uncle John, the next door neighbor or a third period teacher. From the time children begin kindergarten till the day they graduate and start to become independent they remain subject to their parents rule. In some cases this means totally restricting a child's freedom, by monitoring their friends what schools they attend and their after school activities. This toxic rein of elders dictating kids freedom also serves true in school where kids are told how to solve problems, when to attend class and how to properly behave in class etc. The problem with an autocratic dictatorship in schools is that all people learn at different rates for example everybody doesn't learn how to properly divide at the same time. As quoted from A.S. Neill, traditional learning is wrong because it was based on an adult conception of what a child should be like and how they should learn.
             Picture this, a school where you don't have attend classes or do work for years. If you want you can sit around, socialize, play basketball or try to create a ground breaking gadget. Schools were theirs no hierarchy and are treated with the same integrity and curtsey as the teachers. Well this school actually exists and is called Summerhill. This school is truly a remarkable phenomenon of it's time, due to the fact that despite kids not having to attend class the still learn. How? The Idea of Summerhill is to bestow love and approval on children by applying the principles of freedom and no repression. This destroys kids' beliefs of inferiority and instills in them the feeling of freedom.
             Summerhill utilizes the fact that all kids learn at different rates and need to be taught differently. Some kids learn better through images and hand on projects as supposed to the traditional student in which goes to classes and does the work and
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