John Holt

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born

April 14, 1923 in New York City, The United States

died

September 14, 1985

gender

male

website

http://www.holtgws.com/index.html

genre

Nonfiction, Parenting & Families

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After teaching in private schools for many years John Holt wrote his first two books, How Children Fail, and How Children Learn. He became a vocal advocate for school reforms, and wrote several more books about education theory and practice, including alternative forms and many social issues relating to the education system.
Eventually he decided school reform was impossible, and changed his focus to homeschooling. He started America's first magazine dedicated to the subject, Growing Without Schooling, in 1977.

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Average rating: 4.11 · 2,795 ratings · 348 reviews · 39 distinct works

	How Children Learn 4.04 avg rating — 676 ratings — published 1967 — 8 editions	My rating:
	How Children Fail 4.19 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 1500 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling by John Holt, Pat Farenga 4.12 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 1981 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Learning All The Time 4.18 avg rating — 328 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better 4.14 avg rating — 137 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Escape From Childhood 4.05 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story 3.94 avg rating — 52 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	What Do I Do Monday? 3.94 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1970 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Freedom and Beyond 4.28 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1972	My rating:
	Growing Without Schooling: A Record Of A Grassroots Movement 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings	My rating:

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“Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. "Leadership qualities" are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.”
― John Holt, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling

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“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.”
― John Holt

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“We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards, gold stars, or papers marked 100 and tacked to the wall, or A's on report cards, or honor rolls, or dean's lists, or Phi Beta Kappa keys, in short, for the ignoble satisfaction of feeling that they are better than someone else.”
― John Holt

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