Full Description
This is a collection of essays and articles written and compiled by John Holt, each brimming with inspiration and ideas on how to teach children. Taking into account how children actually learn, this book shows us the difference between learning and schooling through his original thinking; clear, thoughtful writing; and first-hand accounts of what does and doesn't work in education.
Contents
Foreword; True Learning; A Little Learning; Schools Are Bad Places for Kids; The Fourth R: The Rate Race; Teachers Talk Too Much; The Tyranny of Testing; Not So golden Rule Days; Making Children Hate Reading; Order and Disorder; Teaching the Unteachable' Education for the Future; Blackboard Bungle; Children in Prison; Comic Truth on an Urgent Problem.
