"It is hard not to feel that there……" — John Holt
"It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call 'motivation'. A child has no stronger desire than to make sense of the world, to move freely in it, to do the things that he sees bigger people doing."
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John Holt
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19 Quotes by John Holt
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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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