{"id":6586,"date":"2014-10-11T18:59:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T22:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2014-10-11T19:02:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T23:02:33","slug":"what-sir-ken-robinson-said-about-summerhill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/what-sir-ken-robinson-said-about-summerhill\/","title":{"rendered":"What Sir Ken Robinson Said About Summerhill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSir Ken Robinson was a keynote speaker<\/a> at the AERO conference in Portland, Oregon in 2012. He made significant contacts with people in the AERO network during his visit, talking to people until well after midnight. Here is a recent interview of Robinson in which he tell us what he thinks about Summerhill School in England. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t\"ScreenFor the first in a new series of community-driven Q&As, TED and Reddit <\/a>joined<\/a> forces to ask creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson any question. TED fans converged on this article<\/a> on Reddit to post their questions, and to vote on questions posed by others. Today, we asked Sir Ken the 10 questions with the most votes.<\/em>
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\n\tHere's what he had to say about Summerhill…
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\n\tWhat is your opinion of the Summerhill School?\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSir Ken: Summerhill is great. It was founded by a visionary educator called A.S. Neill in the U.K. in the early part of the 20th century. And it's still going. It's now run by his daughter. It's a very unusual school by most standards. It's relatively small compared to most public schools. It's a school where the divisions between teachers and students have been blurred.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tRead the whole article on the TED blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sir Ken Robinson was a keynote speaker at the AERO conference in Portland, Oregon in 2012. He made significant contacts with people in the AERO network during his visit, talking to people until well after midnight. Here is a recent interview of Robinson in which he tell us what he thinks about Summerhill School in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6591,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions\/6591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}