"The biggest enemy to learning is the talking…" — John Holt

"The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher."

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19 Quotes by John Holt

John Holt has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to…
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do…
Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach…
We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling…
To trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves...and most of us were taught as children that we could…
A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no…
Why do people take or keep their children out of school? Mostly for three reasons: they think that raising their…
If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary…
We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways…
To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid.
The idea of painless, nonthreatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence.…
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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