The document outlines principles for re-educating youth. It discusses the importance of trust between children and adults, helping youth develop competence in activities like schoolwork, allowing time for growth, teaching self-control and intelligence, nurturing feelings, the importance of community and ceremony, and ensuring children experience joy each day. The overall message is that re-education should focus on building skills, self-regulation, support systems, and finding purpose and happiness.

1. Principles for Re-Education -- Thomas Hobbs

2. Life is to be lived now Not in the past and in the future only as a present challenge.

3. Trust between a child and an adult is essential.

5. Competence Makes A Difference

7. Time is an ally.

9. Self control can be taught

11. Intelligence can be taught.

13. Feelings should be nurtured.

15. The Group is Very Important.

16. The group is very important to young people, and it can become a major source of instruction in growing up. When a group is functioning well, it is difficult for an individual student to behave in a disturbing way.

17. Ceremony gives order.

19. The body is the armature of the self.

21. Communities must be experienced.

23. A child should know some joy each day.

24. I’d rather graduate one happy street sweeper than a thousand neurotic prime ministers. - A. S. Neill, Summerhill

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