Liberty Quotes

"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 nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life." -- 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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"What children need is not new and better curriculum but access to more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences, and to use fantasy and play to make meaning out of them." -- 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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"No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors." -- 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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