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Learn Quotes by John Holt
- Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we…
- To trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves...and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted.
- A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to grow…
- Why do people take or keep their children out of school? Mostly for three reasons: they think that raising their children is their business not…
- We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them,…
- To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid.
- Schools assume that children are not interested in learning and are not much good at it, that they will not learn unless made to, that…
- We who believe that children want to learn about the world, are good at it, and can be trusted to do it with very little…
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