Quotes by : John Holt

It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if....

It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a....

Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from....

Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen.

Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special....

Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders....

The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.

Not long after the book came out I found myself being driven to a meetingby a professor of electrical....

What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is....

We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious....