Oktawian Chojnacki

“The danger of letting people ask, "Is this the best way to do this job?" is that after a while they may ask, "Is this job worth doing?”
― John Holt, Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better: Way to Help People Do Things Better

“intellectual activity, begins with someone asking a question. That is, someone wondering, puzzled, confused. S-chool books, textbooks, rarely help us to see this. They tell us right answers, but very rarely the questions that first led people to look for those answers. So”
― John Holt, Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better: Way to Help People Do Things Better

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”
― Neil Postman

“one reason why schooling is so seldom helpful to children, and almost always deeply harmful, is that they have no reality of encounter with their teachers. The teachers are not themselves, but players of roles. They”
― John Holt, Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better: Way to Help People Do Things Better