A Study On The Educational Spirit Of Neil Xia Shan School

Neill is British liberalism educator in the 20th century. The Summerhill school he founded is referred to as "both the humanity and freedom education paradise", in the process of the Summerhill education practice, Neill has developed and perfected his liberal education thought. In Neill’s education thought, the full trust of children’s good nature and the full respect to them makes Summerhill school he established a free development of paradise. As the development of China’s development, our education career has made great achievements, but there have been some problems, especially, many teachers still use the traditional education method, and highly coordinated era of rapid development. So when we can not solve the problem in the use of the existing education ideas and methods, we might as well review Neill’s education thought. Neill’s education philosophy focusing on freedom and life, might help us solve this problem.In the writing of this paper, in order to meet the demands of writing the paper,the paper is divided into six parts, respectively is:The first part is introduction, mainly discussed the reason of the topic and research significance of the theory and practice, and discussed the general situation of the relevant research both at home and abroad about Neill summerhill school, in addition to the purpose of this thesis writing and method also has carried on the synchronization.The second part deals with the formation of Neill Summerhill school education spirit, mainly from the influence of the time background, including Europe and the United States education reform and the influence of the British education and culture; The influence of personal experience, including childhood life experience, adult social experience, etc.; The influence of the theory of psychology and pedagogy, including Freud psychoanalysis theory, piaget’s theory of children’s psychological development and education thoughts are discussed in three aspects:the influence of existentialism.The third part discusses the connotation and practice of education Neill summerhill school spirit, mainly from the education of love, including the performance of the faith of love, love; Free education, including freedom of religion, freedom of expression; The education of life, including the performance of the faith of life, life, etc.The fourth part discusses the evaluation of Neill Summerhill school spirit, the meaning of education mainly from Neill Summerhill school spirit, including the theoretical and practical significance; Neill Summerhill school education lack of spiritual practice, including the nobility school makes its scale and influence is limited, excessive emphasis on emotional education leads to the neglect, autonomous knowledge education conference have low efficiency because of the height to give students free of risk, etc.The fifth part discusses Neill Nummerhill school education spiritual enlightenment on education in our country, mainly from the spirit of love, believe in the power of love, let a child growing up in the environment of love and the spirit of freedom, emphasis on the value of the individual self development, give children full freedom, the spirit of life-make active and happy life, respect the diversity of life value in three aspects.The sixth part is the conclusion in the end.