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John Holt has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
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No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest…
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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in…
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We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to…
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To trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves...and most of us were taught as children that we could not be…
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A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for…
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Why do people take or keep their children out of school? Mostly for three reasons: they think that raising their children is…
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If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying…
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We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach…
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To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid.
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The idea of painless, nonthreatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence. If you…
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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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I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that…
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Good enough is never good enough.
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Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing…
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Whether by pill or invasive surgery, abortion is never good for women.
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One thing with Garry, and I think it is due in a large part to his Soviet training, he'll never quite understand…
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's…
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If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.
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She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great…
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When I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different. And I felt out of place -- too loud,…
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