How children learn
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In the early sixties, when I wrote much of the original How Children Learn, few psychologists were paying close attention to the learning of very young children.
In the early sixties, when I wrote much of the original How Children Learn, few psychologists were paying close attention to the learning of very young children.
About this book
Explores the natural learning processes of children at the pre-school and primary grade level and describes the ways in which formal education damages and impedes the child's independent ability to learn.
Themes & subjects
EducationCognition in childrenLearningEducational psychologyEducation of childrenChild psychology
First published 1967About the author
John Caldwell Holt
1923 – 1985
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…
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