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39 “I would rather see kids become happy taxi drivers, then neurotic professors.” -A.S. Neill Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness. Kahlil Gibran READING In the following text, A.S. Neill (Alexander Sutherland Neill) describes his famous school, Summerhill School, which he founded in 1921. It is located in the village of Leiston, in Suffolk, England. Normally this school has a total of 45 students – 25 boys and 20 girls. Before you read, look at the pictures. In what ways do you think life at Summerhill is different from life at a more traditional school? Now read the first part of the text. THE IDEA OF SUMMERHILL This is a story of a modern school – Summerhill. Summerhill began as an experimental school. It is no longer such; it is now a demonstration school, for it demonstrates that freedom works. When my first wife and I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child – instead of making the child fit the school. Obviously, the school that makes children sit at desks studying mostly useless subjects is a bad school. It is a good school only for those who believe in such a school, for those uncreative citizens who want docile, uncreative children who will fit into a civilization whose standard of success is money. I had taught in ordinary schools ...