Kilquhanity School

It was located in a classical mansion house designed by the architect Walter Newall near the town of Kirkpatrick Durham in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Galloway.

The school was visited in 1941 by the refugee Polish Jewish artist Jankel Adler who had been evacuated to Glasgow.

The poet W S Graham, who had earlier helped him translate an article on Paul Klee in Glasgow was working here at the time.

He spent New Year 1942 here, Christopher Murray Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) whose son Michael was a pupil here, was also present.

[4][5] The philosophy of Kilquhanity was heavily influenced by the writing and ideas of A. S. Neill, who founded Summerhill School, where Aitkenhead had worked;[2] essentially that children learn best with freedom from coercion ("free-range").