I hold that the aim of life is to find happiness, which
means to find interest. Education should be a preparation for
life. Our culture has not been very successful. Our education,
politics, and economics lead to war. Our medicines have not done
away with disease. Our religion has not abolished usury and robbery.
The advances of the age are advances in mechanism – in
communications and computers, in science and technology. New
wars threaten, for the world’s social conscience is still
primitive.

I just ordered Summerhill on Amazon, so we’ll see what I think after I’ve actually read the book.

However, as a science teacher, I feel that we’ve lost the great combination of science and humanities embodied in the likes of Einstein or the great scientists of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

And we’ve certainly lost our perspective on education in the name of tests and productivity.