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Word: holte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRUTHFUL HARP by Lloyd Alexander, illustrated by Evaline Ness (Holt; $3.50). A prizewinning team tells a story, with more text than most picture books, about a young king who fulfills his secret wish to wander the countryside as a bard and learns thereby many truths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 1, 1967 | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...King of the Castle, Holt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 15, 1967 | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...From experience, education, and research, I challenge every aspect of John Holt's thinking on educational practices [Sept. 1]. Very few children have such excessive fear of teachers and schools unless they are extremely emotionally disturbed. He is judging teachers by 19th century standards. If children have some fear of being wrong, this is good. Authority figures abound in our world. Education's purpose is to prepare people to function in society as it is; not in some Utopian fairyland where there are no frustrations, or where no one is ever wrong or punished. The teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 15, 1967 | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...wish that all educators could share Mr. Holt's views and insights. Today's school system does more to suppress learning than to promote it. I am an honors student, but in these past twelve years I have learned neither history, science, French, nor English. Instead, I have learned how to fake an essay, how to cram, how to impress teachers, and how to comb my hair so that it will not appear to be in violation of the administration's dress code. The result is that upon leaving school one has the feeling that he never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 15, 1967 | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...When She Was Good, Roth (10) 10. The King of the Castle, Holt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Sep. 8, 1967 | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

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