Neill founded Summerhill School, the oldest existing democratic school in Suffolk, England in 1921.

She attended the independent Summerhill School in Leiston, Suffolk, England, but her high-school degree was awarded in St. Johann, near Kitzbühel, Austria.

Summerhill School in England has operated a direct democracy approach to decision making for over 80 years and has often come into conflict with the UK government as a result.

Since the 1960s Leiston became famous outside the UK as the home of the Summerhill School, founded by A. S. Neill in the 1920s, which was the first major " free school "-referring to freedom in education.

Other than Summerhill School, Leiston also has its own primary and high school.

A. S. Neill, the Scottish founder of Summerhill School, was among those who protested the book burning.

His work nevertheless influenced a generation of intellectuals, including the writers Saul Bellow ( 1915 – 2005 ), William Burroughs ( 1914 – 1997 ) and Norman Mailer ( 1923 – 2007 ), and the founder of Summerhill School in England, A. S. Neill.

Summerhill School is an independent British boarding school that was founded in 1921 by Alexander Sutherland Neill with the belief that the school should be made to fit the child, rather than the other way around.

It is upon these major principles, namely, democracy, equality and freedom that Summerhill School operates.

* Summerhill School website

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Lillian Richardson, Ethel's younger sister, married A. S. Neill after divorcing her first husband, and helped found and run Summerhill School.

* Summerhill Primary School-located in Central Avenue, Tibbington, on the merger of Locarno Primary School and Prince's End Primary School.

* Tavistock and Summerhill School

There is a long tradition of such schools which includes Summerhill, the founder of which, A. S. Neill, greatly influenced the spread of such schools, Dartington, and Kilquhanity School and a range of schools based on the ideas of Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner.

* Summerhill School

Summerhill School arose out of the International School in Hellerau.

The school won an appealed to the high court 1999 after it was threatened with closure after which the joint statement confirmed that: " The minister recognised the school had a right to its own philosophy and that any inspection should take into account its aims as an international ' free ' school ... both sides went on record as agreeing that the pupils ' voice should be fully represented in any evaluation of the quality of education at Summerhill and that inspections must consider the full breadth of learning at the school – learning was not confined to lessons ".

Afterwards, Summerhill was part of the Central New York Military Tract, land reserved for veterans.

The town was founded in 1831 from the Town of Locke originally as the " Town of Plato ," but the name was changed to Summerhill in 1832 to avoid conflict with the name of another location.

Fillmore was born in the historical Town of Locke, from which the Town of Summerhill was created.

* Elbridge G. Spaulding, Congressman and New York political leader was born in Summerhill.

Maxwelltown to the west of the river Nith, was formerly a Burgh in its own right within The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright ( also known as Kirkcudbrightshire ) until its incorporation into Dumfries in 1928 ; Summerhill, Troqueer, Lochside, Lincluden, Sandside are among other suburbs located on the Maxwelltown side of the river.

Maxwelltown station in the Summerhill district of the town was closed along with the direct line to Stranraer via Castle Douglas as part of the Beeching Axe in 1965.

This Family was a charter pioneer in the formation of Summerhill Township ( 1810 ) and very likely a charter pioneer in the formation of Cambria County ( 1804 ).

In 1829, Sylvester Welch's Corps of Engineers was running the lines of the Allegheny Portage Railroad through Summerhill Township and they came across “… a little village which they marked on their map " Guinea ", an appellation which the Irish laborers who built the road adopted until the matter was made a subject of complaint to Fr.

He was educated at Summerhill College in County Sligo, and found work as a clerk in the 1950s with CIÉ, the state transport service.

The house in Lyme Regis was called Summerhill, and this became the name of the school.

Although Neill was more concerned with the social development of children than their academic development, Summerhill nevertheless has some important differences in its approach to teaching.

It later emerged that this was because OFSTED ( The " OFfice for STandards in EDucation ") had placed Summerhill on a secret list of 61 independent schools marked as TBW ( To Be Watched ).

Summerhill at 70, an edition of Channel 4's Cutting Edge documentary series, was transmitted on 30 March 1992.

The 2008 television production Summerhill, broadcast on BBC1 and CBBC as a serial and on BBC Four as a one-off drama, was set in Summerhill and presented a highly fictionalized version of the 2000 court case and the events leading up to it.

Neill founded Summerhill with the belief that " the function of a child is to live his own life — not the life that his anxious parents think he should live, not a life according to the purpose of an educator who thinks he knows best.

In 1921 Neill founded Summerhill School to demonstrate his educational theories in practice.

Summerhill School, which Neill founded, was in 2007 accepted by OFSTED as providing a good quality of academic education for children.

* Summerhill School, a school founded by Alexander Sutherland Neill, now located in Leiston, England

Homes were demolished east of Yonge Street near Summerhill in order to construct a cut-and-cover tunnel

He was born at the family estate of Dangan, near Summerhill, a village near Trim in County Meath, Ireland, to Richard Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington, and Elizabeth Sale.