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How Children Learn
How Children Learn
Author: John Holt
It is a chilling paradox that in a country where the most urgent cultural value is education, the educational experience itself is surreal and degrading, especially on the primary level. Holts principle is 2-part...children are people who can be hurt and discouraged and children have an incredible capacity for figuring things out themselves!
ISBN: 401208
Publication Date: 10/1970
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An excerpt from the forward:
"Only a few children in school ever become good at learning in the way we try to make them learn. Most of them get humiliated, frightened, and discouraged. They use their minds, not to learn, but to get out of doing the things we tell them to do--to make them learn. They make it possible for many children to get through their schooling even though they learn very little. But in the long run these strategies are self-limiting and self-defeating, and destroy both character and intelligence. The children who use such strategies are prevented by them from growing into more than limited versions of the human beings they might have become. That is the real failure that takes place in school; hardly any children escape."

John Holt is an icon and pioneer of the homeschooling/unschooling movement.
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