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Group of Hungarians visiting Summerhill School, Suffolk, England October 2010. l to r: Peter Foti, Csilla Mihalisc, Tamas Vekerdy and Maria Honty. They came to see and learn, in the hope that liberal education can have a comeback in Hungary. Maria Honty is a psychologist. Peter Foti is a writer on education. Tamas Vekerdy, a psychologist, writes books about children, leader of the Department dealing with alternative education, main revitaliser of the Waldorf Movement in Hungary after 1989 and wrote the preface to the Hungarian edition of A.S.Neill's book in 2004. Csilla Mihalisc is a journalist from "Nok Lapja", the biggest women's weekly magazine in Hungary. The school was founded by A.S.Neill in 1921 and is run on democratic lines with each person, adult or child, having an equal say. You don't have to go to lessons if you don't want to but could play all day. It gets above average GCSE exam results.
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