Alexander Sutherland Neill Quotes

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.

The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.

It starts with a crush, it then may turn into love, and hopefully will end up as soulmates.

Take from others what you want, but never be a disciple of anyone.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.