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....

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

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

It's a most serious mistake to think that learning is an activity separate from the rest of life, that....

When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying....

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....

We learn to do something by doing it.There is no other way.

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....