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John Caldwell Holt

JOHN HOLT, author, educator, lecturer, and amateur musician, has written nine books, including How Children Fail and How Children Learn. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. Recently he has become the leading advocate of home schooling and the editor as well as publisher of a magazine for home-schooling families, called Growing Without Schooling.
Of his own educational background, John Holt has this to say: "I have come to believe that a person's schooling is as much a part of his private business as his politics or religion, and that no one should be required to answer questions about it. May I say instead that most of what I know I did not learn in school, or even in what most people would call 'learning situations.' "

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American educator and author

Born 1923
Died 1985

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  • Cover of: How children fail

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  • Cover of: How children learn

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  • Cover of: Escape from childhood

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  • Cover of: The underachieving school

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  • Cover of: Teach Your Own: The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home

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  • Cover of: Never too late: my musical life story

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  • Cover of: Instead of education: Ways to help people do things better (A Delta book)

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  • Cover of: Teach your own: the John Holt book of homeschooling

    First published in 1981 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Selected letters of John Holt

    First published in 1990 — 3 editions
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    First published in 1923 — 1 edition
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We need a photo of John Caldwell Holt

American educator and author

Born 1923
Died 1985

Subjects

Education, Éducation, Éducation des enfants, Enfants, Philosophy, Education, philosophy, Home schooling, Philosophie, Child rearing, Education of children, Learning, 1965-, Child psychology, Domestic education, Education, aims and objectives, Educational psychology, Eltern, History, Homebound instruction, Kinderen, Parent participation, Psychology of Learning, United States, Academic achievement, Adolescent

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United States

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John Caldwell Holt (1923-), John Caldwell Holt (1923-1985), John Holt (1923-)

Time

1965-

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January 17, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris Remove bad AKA
January 17, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import