The Dominie Books

Dominie

by A.S. Neill

Book by Neill, Alexander Sutherland

Paperback

First published January 1, 1920

About the author

Alexander Sutherland Neill was a Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school and its philosophy of freedom from adult coercion and its community self-governance, which remains open and continues to follow his educational philosophy to this day. He is best known as an advocate of personal freedom for children.

Reviews

[Tom Schulte · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well I read Inside Summerhill, a Summerhill book, years ago and was fascinated. I have three more on the topic to read and after these three Domine books. Neill seems to me earnest and sincere that I relish in his honestly and passion for his "bairns". I think I really would have enjoyed a conversation with the dominie. This three-in-one set charts his arc from hopeful experimenter in a liberal pedagogy to self-doubts and ultimate dismissal. Neill tried to learn apply then current psychological understanding to engender a creative, playful, free environment of self-directed learning from actualized inclinations, even if they be noisy and nontraditional for the classroom. He gives here a list of books on education, "psycho-analysis", and psychology including crowd psychology which he drew upon and I made a list of these books which now I myself hope to read.