Quotes by : John Holt

If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying....

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach....

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

This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon of....

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.

schools assume that children are not interested in learning and are not much good at it, that they will....

A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no....

Children are not only extremely good at learning they are much better at it than we are.