Reading Ofsted on Summerhill and Ofsted and Summerhill

Encouraging Results? During their postgraduate medical education, doctors learn to manage the complexity, uncertainty, and breadth of clinical decision-making in their everyday, real-life practice. This kind of education has much more in common with what is known as ‘radical’, ‘critical’, or ‘emancipatory’ education than it does with instructional training, and one of the key philosophers and practitioners in that area is A S Neill, founder of the world-famous Summerhill School. When the schools’ regulation body Ofsted threatened Summerhill with closure because its approach was different from the mainstream, I was one of many educationists who came to their defence.

To learn more about A S Neill and Summerhill’s unique approach to education, click here: http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk