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Burgess Hill Boarding School
Address
Oak Hill Park, Hampstead


Information
Other nameBeat School
TypeIndependent day and boarding
Established1950s
FounderJames East
GenderMixed
Age7 to 17
LanguageEnglish

Burgess Hill Boarding School (also the Beat School) was an ultra-permissive boarding school for young teens.[1] Activities normally forbidden, such as smoking, petting, cursing and uncleanliness were permitted.[2]

Location

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Most sources mention the school as having been in Hampstead, others say Hertfordshire.[3]

Teachers

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Alumni

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References

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  1. ^ "Education: School Without Rules". TIME. March 9, 1962. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
  2. ^ Gallagher, Paul. "Do Anything You Want To Do: England's Beat School, from 1961". Dangerous Minds. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
  3. ^ Pathé, British. "Beat School". www.britishpathe.com.
  4. ^ "Peter Vansittart". The Telegraph. 10 October 2008. After the war he returned to Hampstead and taught at the experimental Burgess Hill school, where lessons were voluntary and children were discouraged from learning to read or to count, and which inspired his novel Broken Canes (1950).
  5. ^ Grimes, William. "Peter Vansittart, 88, Historical Novelist". query.nytimes.com. From 1947 to 1959 Mr. Vansittart was director of the Burgess Hill School in Hampstead, London, a progressive, coeducational establishment [..]
  6. ^ Rooum, Donald; Segar, Rufus (April 30, 2001). "Tony Gibson" – via www.theguardian.com. From then until 1954, he and Betty worked at the progressive Burgess Hill school, in Hampstead [..]
  7. ^ Bernal, Martin (3 July 2012). Geography of a Life. Xlibris Corporation. pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-1-4653-6376-3.
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