Another Adult Quotes by John Holt

More Quotes by John Holt

John Holt has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
• No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest…
• Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in…
• We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to…
• To trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves...and most of us were taught as children that we could not be…
• A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for…
• Why do people take or keep their children out of school? Mostly for three reasons: they think that raising their children is…
• If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying…
• We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach…
• To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid.
• The idea of painless, nonthreatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence. If you…
• What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it…

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