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With some beautiful insights, Holt said what many already knew instinctively about school, merely by having passed through it themselves. His method was to reflect upon his own experience of teaching in his Boston classroom, by giving vignettes—diary entries of his work with children. He mused on the things children said and did in response to his
... See moreGary Thomas • Education: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
JOHN HOLT author of How Children Fail
Connie Dawson • Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children
Walden Two (Hackett Classics)
Farnam Street • Dr. Laura Markham: Peaceful Parenting [The Knowledge Project Ep. #52]
The schools cling more and more stubbornly to their mistaken idea that education and teaching are industrial processes, to be designed and planned from above in the minutest detail and then imposed on passive teachers and their even more passive students.
John Caldwell Holt • How Children Learn (50th anniversary edition) (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
All I am saying in this book can be summed up in two words—Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple—or more difficult. Difficult, because to trust children we must trust ourselves—and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted. And so we go on treating children as we ourselves were treated, calling this “reality,” or saying
... See moreJohn Caldwell Holt • How Children Learn (50th anniversary edition) (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
We have a public imagination that cannot conceive of what exactly to do with children, especially smart children. We fail to properly respect them through adolescence, so we have engineered them to be useless, and so they shuffle through a decade of busywork. Partly, the length of schooling has increased simply because it could—because we no longer
... See moreSimon Sarris • School Is Not Enough
