Talk:Jimmy Shand

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"He was awarded an MBE in 1962, the same year that he appeared on "Top of the Pops".

This sentence can't be true since TOTP didn't start until 1964. MFlet1 15:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Jimmy shand and A.S.Neill
I am just reading A.S. Neil's Book Radical Approach to Child Rearing where he reveals that Shand had been an anonymous benefactor of Summerhill:

"When we opened the school, the difficulties were especially grave. We could only take children from the upper and middle classes because we had to make ends meet. We had no rich man behind us. In the early days of the school, a benefactor, who insisted on anonymity, helped us through one or two bad times; and later one of the parents made generous gift - a new kitchen, a radio, a new wing on our cottage, a new workshop. He was the ideal benefactor, for he set no conditions and asked for nothing in return “Summerhill gave my Jimmy the education I wanted for him:’ he said simply, for James Shand was a true believer in freedom for children."

-Nicolas n.lamoure[at]web.de — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.155.124.76 (talk) 03:35, 10 January 2013 (UTC)