Benefits of Summerhill School
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The first benefit I think of is that all the pupils in the class are interested in what the teacher has to say. All who go to are ready to learn about the subject.
This also means that out of class the pupils are willing to talk about what they learned. It was strange to me how outside of Lectures in higher education that nobody wanted to talk about the content of the Lecture they had just attended.
Class size tended to be small. There were and I think, still are, only about 60 places available for this school. Ages and place to sleep were divided into house or building locations. The ‘San’ kids 5 to 7 years old. Ages 8 - 10 were called ‘Cottage kids’, 10–12 House kids. House kids were divided into boy bedrooms and girl bedrooms. After that you moved to The Hen house, female, The Shack boys, and then onto your own room in a new Carriages building (There was an old dormitory made out of railway carriages, hence the name.) The older you got the less people there were in your sleeping area. Thus distractions from reading got less the older you became.
The names and sleeping conditions I have given may have changed since I left in 1972,
One on one tutorship could be available if you expressed an interest and the teacher was willing to arrange an afternoon with you. From 2.00pm to 4.00pm the boys played football or all pupils went swimming if the pool was open. The pool was constructed in the first few years of my time at Summerhill.
There could be many psychological benefits as well, but I am not qualified to answer that area of knowledge.
Explanation:
The first benefit I think of is that all the pupils in the class are interested in what the teacher has to say. All who go to are ready to learn about the subject.
This also means that out of class the pupils are willing to talk about what they learned. It was strange to me how outside of Lectures in higher education that nobody wanted to talk about the content of the Lecture they had just attended.
Class size tended to be small. There were and I think, still are, only about 60 places available for this school. Ages and place to sleep were divided into house or building locations. The ‘San’ kids 5 to 7 years old. Ages 8 - 10 were called ‘Cottage kids’, 10–12 House kids. House kids were divided into boy bedrooms and girl bedrooms. After that you moved to The Hen house, female, The Shack boys, and then onto your own room in a new Carriages building (There was an old dormitory made out of railway carriages, hence the name.) The older you got the less people there were in your sleeping area. Thus distractions from reading got less the older you became.
The names and sleeping conditions I have given may have changed since I left in 1972,
One on one tutorship could be available if you expressed an interest and the teacher was willing to arrange an afternoon with you. From 2.00pm to 4.00pm the boys played football or all pupils went swimming if the pool was open. The pool was constructed in the first few years of my time at Summerhill.
There could be many psychological benefits as well, but I am not qualified to answer that area of knowledge.