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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New ed of 2 Revised ed edition (27 Sep 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140135561
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140135565
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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John Holt (1923-1985) was a teacher in the American school system before becoming one of the foremost advocates for homeschooling.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A disturbing and vital book for all teachers, 20 Sep 2000
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John Holt explains, though examples and case studies, his insights into how children's experience of education differes radically from the experience which teachers expect or imagine. He explains how some children can go through school without apparently learning anything, and how children conform to a system which values the appearance of success (getting the 'right' answer) rather than true understanding. In doing so they use all their intelligence to avoid the appearance of failure, rather than in the pursuit of learning. This is a disturbing book for anyone who thinks they understand children or know how to teach, and is vital reading for any school teacher.
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5.0 out of 5 stars What an eye-opener!, 15 Mar 2004
By M. Raymond "muddlepuddlemerry" (Peterborough) - See all my reviews
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John Holt is well respected among the home educating/homeschooling world which given that he was a maths teacher, is impressive!!!!

This is not a negative book about childrens failure, it is a positive book about the failure of organised classroom maths and how children inevitably flounder in it. Its a manual of the techniques they acquire to cope rather than learn and as such is immensely useful. Its a description of what is not learned when someone is "taught" but at the same time it is a case study based advocate of the positive power of discovery based learning

His thoughts can be applied to any subject but as a person who floundered at maths throughout school, it gave me a masive understanding into how not to repeat those mistakes with my own home educated children.

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