"By now I have come to feel that……" — John Holt
"By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a child, of being wholly subservient and dependent, of being seen by older people as a mixture of expensive nuisance, slave and super-pet, does most young people more harm than good."
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19 Quotes by John Holt
John Holt has 19 quotes on this site.
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People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to…
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No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do…
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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…
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We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling…
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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…
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A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no…
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Why do people take or keep their children out of school? Mostly for three reasons: they think that raising their…
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If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary…
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We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways…
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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.…
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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…
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
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