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EVEN in the kindest and gentlest of schools, children are afraid, many of them a great deal of the time, some of them almost all the time." That statement, at first startling but on reflection quite understandable, comes from a teacher named John Holt, whose new book, How Children Learn, is discussed in EDUCATION this week. Teacher Holt goes on to suggest that schools "could well afford to throw out most of what we teach, because the children throw out almost all of it anyway...
...balding, 44-year-old private-school teacher who shuns educational jargon and rejects the notion that either life or learning can be forced into nifty patterns is quietly emerging as one of U.S. education's most damning critics. In his 1964 book, How Children Fail, Teacher John Holt unreeled a series of classroom anecdotes to show that children-beset by teacher-imposed fear, confusion and boredom-merely grope for right answers, rather than understand. In a sequel, How Children Learn, to be published next month, he illustrates the spontaneous ways in which kids embrace knowledge before they enter schools...
...King of the Castle, Holt...
...King of the Castle, Holt...
...TIME OF FRIENDSHIP by Paul Bowles. 215 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...