Freedom and Beyond Quotes

“The curse of our time, perhaps soon a fatal one, is not idleness, but work not worth doing, done by people who hate it, who do it only because they fear that if they do not they will have no ‘job’, no livelihood, and worse than that, no sense of being useful or needed or worthy.”
― John Holt, Freedom and Beyond

“Deny children – or anyone else - the chance to do ‘nothing’, and we may be denying them the chance to do ‘something’ - to find and do any work that is truly important, to themselves or to someone else.”
― John Holt, Freedom and Beyond

“You don’t have to have school buildings in order to have schools and you don’t have to have schools in order to have education.”
― John Holt, Freedom and Beyond