A seemingly timeless work on education by A. S. Neill, it remains very little dated and is still a useful reference work for parents and educators. A good many of Mr. Neill's suggestions seem just as impractical as they must have done fifty years ago, yet we can hardly discard them on that basis alone. It's a challenging book for a new decade (another one) in dire need of new ideas. If you haven't read it recently, or haven't read it at all, it is a very inexpensive and painless way for you to make some positive difference in your attitude to children, whether they be your own or other people's.