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- Homer Lane (1875-1925) was an American-born educator who believed that the behaviour and character of children improved when they were given more control over their lives. He was born in Connecticut and started his teaching career at Peters High School in Southborough, Massachusetts. He later went to Detroit, where he worked with youths who had run afoul of the law. In 1912 he was invited to go to England where he founded the Little Commonwealth school in Dorset and greatly influenced A. S. Neill, the founder of Summerhill School. Homer Lane had two children by his first wife, Cora Barney, and three by his second wife. They also adopted a daughter. He died in Paris after having been deported from England for failing to maintain his alien registration. His family remained in England. Lane's foremost disciple was his patient, Alexander S. Neill, who began a school, Summerhill, which became exceptionally well known after an American publisher, Harold Hart, published Summerhill: A Radical Approach To Child Rearing, in 1960, as the book sold 200,000 copies. Hart had never before published a trade book, being a publisher of children's books and having been advised strongly against publishing Neill's. He was given moral support by a number of alternative educators in the United States, but took the plunge on his own. The American school, Summerlane, in North Branch, New York, was explicitly named for Summerhill and Homer Lane. It began in 1963 in North Carolina but was burned by racists and moved to Mileses, New York, then settled near North Branch, in farmland near the hamlet of Roscoe, New York, off Highway 17. More information can be found from the following sources: Homer Lane Talks to Parents and Teachers, Allen & Unwin, London, 1928 http://www. infed. org/thinkers/homerlane. htm, Homer Lane and The Little Commonwealth (an excerpt from Homer Lane's "Talks") von Hilsheimer, G. Is There A Science of Behavior, Humanitas, Maitland, Fl 1967; How To Live With Your Special Child, Acropolis Books, 1970 (also published as Understanding Young People in Trouble, Acropolis Books, 1970, soft cover); Summerhill: A radical approach to education, IN Values for a changing America, Hellen Huus, ed. , University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975 pp 59–75; Children, Schools and Utopias. This Magazine is about Schools, 1966, 23-37 W. David Wills, Homer Lane: A biography, Allen & Unwin, 1964 Aichorn, August, Wayward Youth, New York, Viking Press, 1935 Aiken, W.M. Adventure in American education, 5 vol. , New York, Harper & Brothers, 1942 Allen, Lady of Hurtwood; Hurd H. et al. Adventure playgrounds, The National Playing Fields Association, London, 1960 Binns, H.B. , A Century of Education: 1808-1908, London, J.M. Dent & Co. , 1908 Brehony, K. J. The genesis and disappearance of Homer Lane's Little Commonwealth: A Weberian analysis. Persistenz und Verschwinden. / Persistence and Disappearance: Pädagogische Organisationen im historischen Kontext. / Educational Organizations in their historical Contexts in M. Göhlich, C. Hopf and D. Tröhler (Eds.). Wiesbaden, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: 237-53, 2008. Burns, M. , Mr. Lyward’s Answer, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1956 Holms, G. , The Idiot Teacher, Longon, Faber & Faber, 1952 Holt, John, How Children Fail, New York, Pittman, 1964 Holt, John, How Children Learn, New York, Pittman, 1966 Makarenko, A.S. , A Book for Parents, Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954; Learning to Live, Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1953; The Road to Life, 3 vol. , Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1951 National Playing Fields Association, Adventure Playgrounds, 71 Escleston Square,London SW1, 1960, pamphlets; Planning an imaginative children’s playground without leadership, mimeograph, 1964 Neill, A. S. , Summerhill: A radical approach to child rearing. New York, Harold Hart, 1960 Pearse, J.H. & Crocker, L.H. , The Peckham Experiment: a study in the living structure of society. London, Allen & Unwin for the Sir Halley Steart Trust, 1943 Powers, E. & Witmer, H. , An experiment in the preention of delinquency: The Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, New York: Columbia U. Press, 1951 Spiel, Oskar. , Discipline Without Punishment. London, Faber & Faber, 1962 Wills, W. David. Homer Lane: A Biography, London, Allen & Unwin, 1964; The Hawkspur Experiment, London, Allen & Unwin, date unknown
- Homer Lane war ein Pädagoge und Sozialreformer. Bekannt wurde er für die Begründung des „Little Commonwealth“, einer zwischen 1913 und 1918 bestehenden Besserungsanstalt für jugendliche Straftäter im englischen Dorset.
- Homer Lane egy amerikai születésű oktatásügyi reformer volt, aki azt vallotta, hogy a gyerekek viselkedése és karatktere elönyösen változik, ha több ellenőrzésük lehet a saját életük felett.
- Homer Lane foi um educador estadunidense. Defendia que o comportamento e o desenvolvimento das crianças era melhor quando elas tinham a oportunidade de ter mais controle sobre suas vidas. Nasceu em Connecticut e começou a dar aulas numa escola em Southborough, Massachusetts. Depois foi para Detroit, onde trabalhou com jovens que haviam cometido crimes. Em 1912 foi para a Inglaterra onde fundou a escola Little Commonwealth. Essa escola foi uma das maiores influências para A. S. Neill, fundador de Summerhill Morreu em Paris, após ter sido deportado da Inglaterra. Infed webpage
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