Alexander Sutherland Neill Quotes
- The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
- If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself
- It starts with a crush, it then may turn into love, and hopefully will end up as soulmates.
- There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent
- I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.
- 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…
- 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.
- Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.