"Until I read Neill’s book, ‘Summerhill,’ I thought there were only two ways to bring up children, either with authoritarian discipline or with permissiveness. Either way, hopefully, applied with love. Now I know there is a third way: teaching a child self*regulation, not by coercion or by abandoning discipline, but by freedom with responsibility."
- Orson BeanAmerican author and actor Orson Bean once expressed his views on parenting in a way that emphasizes the value of balance. He discusses reading Alexander Sutherland Neill's "Summerhill," which exposed him to different approaches to childrearing, in this quotation. The core of Neill's strategy is esta…