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...King of the Castle, Holt...
...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...
...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...
...When She Was Good, Roth (10) 10. The King of the Castle, Holt...
...Holt argues that most testing should be dropped, since "the only answer that really sticks in a child's mind is the answer to a question that he asked or might ask of himself." Students should have to learn only those things that really interest them. This would not be much of a hazard, Holt suggests, since for most people, "the things we most need to learn are the things we most want to learn." He thinks schools "could well afford to throw out most of what we teach, because the children throw out almost all of it anyway...