![]() He felt that deprivation of this sense of freedom during childhood, and the consequent unhappiness experienced by the repressed child, was responsible for many of the psychological disorders of adulthood. Neill believed that the happiness of the child should be the paramount consideration in decisions about the child's upbringing, and that this happiness grew from a sense of personal freedom. In these notes, he described himself as "just enough of a Nietzschian to protest against teaching children to be meek and lowly" and wrote (in A Dominie's Log) that he was "trying to form minds that will question and destroy and rebuild". ![]() ![]() During this period, his growing discontent could be traced in notes which he later published. In 1914 he became headmaster of the Gretna Green School in Scotland. After acting as a pupil-teacher for his father, he studied at the University of Edinburgh and obtained an M.A. Neill was born in Forfar, the son of a schoolteacher. ![]()
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