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...Thomas Holt, associate professor of Afro-American Studies and History...
Teach my children at home [Dec. 4]? The American housewife has performed a multirole job for so long, for so little, that heaping yet another "small" responsibility on her seems too casual. Mr. Educational Theorist Holt, you are not, nor will you ever be a mother. Even to suggest that we cheat ourselves out of that wonderfully inevitable day when the little kiddies finally start first grade is cruel. I'm "mothered...
...some parents most is the fear that their children will make fewer friends because they stay at home. "Yes, she's a little lonely," admits a father whose eight-year-old daughter is learning at home, "and in a few years that could be more of a problem." John Holt bristles when the issue of social skills is raised. Says he: "If I had no other reason to keep kids out of school, the social life would be enough. In all the schools I know anything about, the social life of the children is meanspirited, competitive, exclusive, status-seeking, full...
...parents who fret about not being trained teachers, John Holt has this advice: "It's like cooking?anybody can learn it. You can do a passable job by following a recipe book, and once you get some confidence in yourself, you take your nose out of the book and experiment on your...
...homes can hope for the kind of instruction that John Stuart Mill got both from his father James, one of the most brilliant men of 19th century England, and from Jeremy Bentham; or that Alexander the Great got from a tutor named Aristotle. But even those who reject Holt's radical solution find it hard to disagree with his view that administrative gobbledygook too often comes between children and their desire to learn. "People have been transmitting knowledge and skills for centuries," notes Holt. "Not everyone does it equally well, but it is an accessible skill...