John Holt
American educator and writer on schooling (1923 to 1985); author of How Children Fail (1964).
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Schools should teach what children most want to know, not what adults think they ought to
Schools should be a place where children learn what they most want to know, instead of what we think they ought to know.
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Schools should teach what children most want to know, not what adults think they ought to
Schools should be a place where children learn what they most want to know, instead of what we think they ought to know.
How Children Fail (Pitman, 1964) Said c. 1964
Schools worship right answers, and children get ahead by producing them
Schools are a kind of temple of worship for "right answers," and the way to get ahead is to lay plenty of them on the altar.
How Children Fail (Pitman, 1964) Said c. 1964
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