"Over the years, I have noticed that the……" — John Holt
"Over the years, I have noticed that the child who learns quickly is adventurous. She's ready to run risks. She approaches life with arms outspread. She wants to take it all in. She still has the desire of the very young child to make sense out of things. She's not concerned with concealing her ignorance or protecting herself. She's ready to expose herself to disappointment and defeat. She has a certain confidence. She expects to make sense out of things sooner or later. She has a kind of trust."
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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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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into…
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a…
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I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is…
— Alan Cohen
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More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants.…
— William J. Clinton
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of…
— Agnes Martin
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We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We…
— Guy Laliberte
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political…
— George Ellery Hale
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I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that…
— Unknown Author
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions -…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous…
— Louis Kronenberger
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