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How Children Learn
How Children Learn
Author: John Holt
This is a book where John Holt uses anecdotal observations that question assumptions about how children acquire knowledge and learning skills.
ISBN-13: 9780440038351
ISBN-10: 0440038359
Pages: 303
Edition: Revised
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Publisher: Delacorte Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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An excerpt from the forward:
"Only a few children in school ever become good at learning in the way we try to make them learn. Most of them get humiliated, frightened, and discouraged. They use their minds, not to learn, but to get out of doing the things we tell them to do--to make them learn. They make it possible for many children to get through their schooling even though they learn very little. But in the long run these strategies are self-limiting and self-defeating, and destroy both character and intelligence. The children who use such strategies are prevented by them from growing into more than limited versions of the human beings they might have become. That is the real failure that takes place in school; hardly any children escape."

John Holt is an icon and pioneer of the homeschooling/unschooling movement.
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