Alexander neill summerhill5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() By calling him a damned liar, I was meeting him on his own level.” (A.S. Here was a boy to whom headmasters were stern, moral disciplinarians to be cheated every time. By offering him a cigarette, I was showing him that I approved of his smoking. ‘Thanks’, he stammered, ‘but I don’t smoke, sir.’ ‘Take one, you damned liar’, I said with a smile, and he took one. I noticed that his fingers were yellow with nicotine, so I took out my cigarette packet and offered it to him. He had just come to Summerhill from a typical Public School. “Once I asked a boy of fourteen to come and have a chat with me. ![]()
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