![]() Aged 35, she read Russian Studies at university followed by three years as a postgraduate at the LSE. After leaving school she went to ballet school, worked in a bookshop, trained as a teacher and became a folk singer. ![]() She believes that the school liberated her from a "tendency towards priggishness" which she believes a traditional girls' grammar would have developed in her. Hylda Sims, now aged 79, attended Summerhill between 19, and was always drawn to academic subjects. Neill was always seen to be very keen that we shouldn't do Shakespeare, for example, because he was afraid – I think quite rightly – that if you did it would put you off." It may be that anybody who's not been put off subjects wants to go on finding out about the world. ![]() Now emeritus reader in mathematics at Imperial College, London, he recalls: "I was incredibly lucky to have gone to Summerhill and I don't seem to have suffered academically because of the fact that it wasn't a traditional school. ![]() After leaving school he got some academic coaching and went on to get a first class degree from Imperial College, London. Mike spent much of his eight years at the school doing arts and crafts and playing sports. ![]() Mike Bernal, who joined in 1932 aged six, is the son of J D Bernal, an eminent Cambridge physicist well known at the time for his Marxist views. After Summerhill follows the fortunes of 15 former Summerhillians, recording their memories and charting their progress. ![]()
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