People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
John Holt
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Its not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong but a wrong idea from the word go. Its a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens cut off from the rest of life.
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No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
- John Holt