Quotes by : John Holt

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

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their....

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

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....

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

Over the years, I have noticed that the child who learns quickly is adventurous. She's ready to run risks.....

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