“Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.”

“All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.”

“I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.”

“The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best”

“If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself”

“Compelled respect always implies fear.”

“Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.”