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Alexander Sutherland Neill Quotes: When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.
         

When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.


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