Hi — I'm Rosalyn Spencer
In my first book 'Why I Started a Small School' I share my vision with the reader, and tell the true story of how I made some dreams come true.
Read the Book“Everybody has intelligence… It's just a matter of finding the right door… and then finding the right key to unlock it!”
“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are seedlings of realities.”
What People Are Saying
“A powerful story of transformation in education. I recommend this book to all educators wholeheartedly.”
Satish Kumar
Editor-in-Chief, Resurgence & Ecologist; Founder of The Small School, Hartland
“Rosalyn Spencer's personal and compelling narrative about her battle to establish a new type of school two decades ago marks her out as an innovator ahead of her time.”
Tony Breslin
Chair, Human Scale Education
“Rosalyn's courageous establishment was a much-needed exemplar of change in education-provision, in what is now, a socio-ecologically fragmenting Britain.”
Stuart McBurney
Author, Ecology into Economics Won't Go
Longthwaite Writers’ Retreat
The perfect place to make progress with your writing in peaceful surroundings. A beautifully renovated 300-year-old farmhouse just outside the Lake District National Park.
Find Out More