John Holt
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Teacher and education writer (1923 to 1985) whose How Children Fail (1964) argued that schools teach children fear and answer-hunting instead of real…
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6 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Schools should teach what children most want to know, not what adults think they ought to (opens korrents.com)
“Schools should be a place where children learn what they most want to know, instead of what we think they ought to know.”
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Schools worship right answers, and children get ahead by producing them (opens korrents.com)
“Schools are a kind of temple of worship for "right answers," and the way to get ahead is to lay plenty of them on the altar.”
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There must be a limit to the tension children are put under (opens korrents.com)
“We must set a limit to the tension that we put children under.”
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Schools should teach what children most want to know, not what adults think they ought to (opens korrents.com)