A collection of quotes and thoughts by John Holt on reading, philosophy, unschooling, education, reform, articles, test, intelligence, educator and learning.
17 Thought-Provoking Quotes By John Holt That Give Insights About Homeschooling
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Educationist, Writer, Teacher
Born In:
New York City, New York, United States
John Holt was a distinguished American educator, proponent of homeschooling and the unschooling approach, pioneer of youth rights theory and author. After working in the school system for several years, he got disillusioned with it. He started advocating homeschooling as he got convinced with the thought that reforming the school system was not possible. His stressed the point that children should be given the freedom to follow their own interests and should be given an assortment of resources. He believed that children should not be coerced into learning. This eventually led to the line of thought called ‘Unschooling’. In 1977, he founded ‘Growing Without Schooling’ which became America’s first home education newsletter. Following is a corpus of thoughts, opinions and viewpoints shared by John Holt which are used as quotable quotes and sayings. Zoom through the quotes and sayings by John Holt on future, child, problems, attention, fee, experience, leadership, homeschooling, parenting and more.
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