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John Caldwell Holt

JOHN HOLT, author, educator, lecturer, and amateur musician, has written nine books, including How Children Fail and How Children Learn. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. Recently he has become the leading advocate of home schooling and the editor as well as publisher of a magazine for home-schooling families, called Growing Without Schooling.
Of his own educational background, John Holt has this to say: "I have come to believe that a person's schooling is as much a part of his private business as his politics or religion, and that no one should be required to answer questions about it. May I say instead that most of what I know I did not learn in school, or even in what most people would call 'learning situations.' "

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American educator and author

Born 1923
Died 1985

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American educator and author

Born 1923
Died 1985
Subjects
Education, Philosophy, Éducation, Éducation des enfants, Education, philosophy, Enfants, Philosophie, Learning, Child rearing, Education of children, Education, aims and objectives, Child psychology, Educational psychology, Home schooling, Underachievers, 1965-, Biography, Cognition in children, Domestic education, Droits, Education, compulsory, Educational innovations, Failure (Psychology), Homebound instruction, Jeunesse
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United States
People
John Caldwell Holt (1923-), John Caldwell Holt (1923-1985), John Holt (1923-)
Time
1965-

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January 17, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris Remove bad AKA
January 17, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import