1. Principles for Re-Education -- Thomas Hobbs

2. Life is to be lived now Not in the past and in the future only as a present challenge.

3. Trust between a child and an adult is essential.

5. Competence Makes A Difference

7. Time is an ally.

9. Self control can be taught

11. Intelligence can be taught.

13. Feelings should be nurtured.

15. The Group is Very Important.

16. The group is very important to young people, and it can become a major source of instruction in growing up. When a group is functioning well, it is difficult for an individual student to behave in a disturbing way.

17. Ceremony gives order.

19. The body is the armature of the self.

21. Communities must be experienced.

23. A child should know some joy each day.

24. I’d rather graduate one happy street sweeper than a thousand neurotic prime ministers. - A. S. Neill, Summerhill

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