Lucia Kelly

“Small boys often produce their own plays; but usually the parts are not written out. They hardly need to be, for the main line of each character is always "Stick 'em up!" In these plays the curtain is always rung down on a set of corpses, for small boys are by nature through and uncompromising.”
― A.S. Neill, Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing

“… see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as a lack of experience and skill.


(Seth Abrams)”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.”
― A.S. Neill

“Religion was at it's best when it emphasized spiritual experiences rather than received dogma. "The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith, rather than living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it," he told me. "I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's a great mystery.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs