We decided to go on to talk about another topic of interest to us and we have studied in class. We find very interesting and different way of looking at teaching, so we have a lot of attention, which does not mean that we totally agree with your methodology. Here we describe a little bit. Summerhill School was founded in England in a village a few miles from London in 1921. Is out of town, in the field. The architect was Alexander Sutherland Neil who wanted to create a free school, a new education focused on the immediate interests of the child, there was a mutual respect between teacher and student. In principle, the school was considered only a place only had room for children from privileged families and where children have great freedom to do what they wanted, but little by little has been seen as an alternative to traditional methods, coercion and authority.
The school has children from age five to 18 years old and live in the boarding school boys and girls.
Currently, this school is run by Nill's daughter, Zoe, and that he died 14 years ago.
At school, there is mutual respect between teachers and children. Students do not feel the need to call the attention of teachers, because they are treated as equals, and are very mature. Therefore, there is no superiority of the master, but it seems that is not necessary, because they know very well what is right and what is wrong. We may look a little chaos that the teacher is not imposed or required by students when they do something wrong, but on the other hand, the aim is that students themselves are able to distinguish what they do well or poorly, power themselves and correct their actions. So it is not necessary for teachers to coerce them and scold them when they do things wrong, like no repression. May thus learn to respect others, learn to grow by themselves and need no reprisals for doing things right. Moreover, this school has no obligation to attend school. This no longer seems appropriate, because if the child does not attend school, then, just learn from books?. As Nill says, do not force the child to learn, but must learn on their own, and you will find a way to learn when needed, yet the child needs a motivation to learn that it was often shall give the teacher and also so accustomed to having rules to know that during the morning must go to class. In this school there is no test, except some officers. This question of self examination seems adequate, and we fully agree with their methodology, because in our school we only do tests that are valid for pass or fail, but not to learn more. The children in our schools studying for the test because they know that if not suspended, but leave the classroom when they forget everything. The best thing would be to carry out a method in which children are encouraged through daily activities on the agenda, which can be evaluated daily to the child, without having to make a final examination. The next
backset talking about this school so rare.
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