A Dominie Dismissed

The continuation of Alexander Sutherland Neill's classic Dominie Series about a beloved school teacher whose engaging and nurturing methods educate students and help them mature. Neill's educational philosophy was tremendously influential on progressive education and the Free School Movement. In consequence of the Dominie's go-as-you-please methods of educating village children, the inevitable happens-he is dismissed, giving place to an approved disciplinarian. The unhappy Dominie, forced to leave his bairns, seeks to enlist-but the doctor discovers that his lungs are affected, and he is ordered an open-air life. He returns as a cattleman to the village where he has previously been a schoolmaster. Incidentally, he watches the effect of his successor's teaching, the triumph of his own methods and the discomfiture of his rival at the hands of the children, in whom the Dominie cultivated personality and the rights of bairns.