He then tried some work in journalism and did some editorial work for an encyclopedia.Īs World War I began, Neill became headmaster for a school in Scotland that prepared students for work on farms and in domestic service. He changed his major to English and received his master’s degree in 1912. He passed the first year even though he understood little of the lectures. When Neill was 25, he became a student of agriculture at Edinburgh University. The following three years, Neill had a difficult teaching job followed by two easier and happier years at another school. Next, he worked as an assistant in a dry goods shop for a short time until he became a pupil-teacher in his father’s school for the next four years. When Neill was 14, he worked as an office boy in a factory but because he became so lonely and homesick, he returned home. His early education began in his father's one-room, five-class village school. Neill was born in Forfar, Scotland, the son of a schoolteacher.
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