Liberty Quotes

“Education... now seems to me perhaps the most authoritarian and dangerous of all the social inventions of mankind. It is the deepest foundation of the modern slave state, in which most people feel themselves to be nothing but producers, consumers, spectators, and 'fans,' driven more and more, in all parts of their lives, by greed, envy, and fear. My concern is not to improve 'education' but to do away with it, to end the ugly and antihuman business of people-shaping and to allow and help people to shape themselves." -- John Holt (1923-1985) American author and educator, proponent of homeschooling, and pioneer in youth rights theory Source: Holt, J. (1967). How Children Learn. New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation
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"I believe that we learn best when we, not others are deciding what we are going to learn, and when we are choosing the people, materials, and experiences from which we will be learning." -- John Holt (1923-1985) American author and educator, proponent of homeschooling, and pioneer in youth rights theory Source: Holt, J. (1967). How Children Learn. New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation
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"The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners." -- John Holt (1923-1985) American author and educator, proponent of homeschooling, and pioneer in youth rights theory Source: Holt, J. (1967). How Children Learn. New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation
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