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Title: Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling by John Holt, Patrick Farenga, Pat Farenga ISBN: 0-7382-0694-6 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A treatise from the "granddaddy" of homeschooling
Comment: In this unofficial treatise for the homeschooling movement, John Holt, longtime private school teacher, maintains that the traditional classroom model no longer works and may, in fact, ruin kids for learning. He exhorts parents to challenge the conventional wisdom and be their children's teachers. You don't need to be a homeschooler to benefit from Holt's books; you simply need to care about children and education and to have uttered, if only once, "There's got to be a better way."
Rating: 5
Summary: How People Learn
Comment: Do you remember what they taught you at school? Me neither. I learned to read very early on, mostly at home, and I still remember some math, but only because I balance my checkbook and know when I'm getting correct change at the market. All those years, isolated from the real world in the artificial environment of school, sitting at a desk all day with 30 of my same age peers, how was I to learn about what an actual life in the world is like, or about what I wanted to do with mine? I remember learning to take tests. Now I never take them. A lot of it was pleasant enough, some of it was not, most of it was boring, and somehow I never noticed that I was mostly wasting my time.
Now I know better having read John Holt, a sweet, caring man and a wonderful writer. He's radical, but he never rants. He persuades, gently, eloquently. He learns through years of careful, loving observation and by trial and error and he shares that with you in a way that makes it seem as though he's one of your oldest, most comfortable friends. He reminds you of what you went through in school. He makes sense. He's fun to read. And you know he's right as you read him, because we have all gone to school.
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Title: The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom by Mary Griffith ISBN: 0761512764 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Learning All the Time by John Holt ISBN: 0201550911 Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: How Children Learn (Classics in Child Development) by John Caldwell Holt ISBN: 0201484048 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto ISBN: 0865714487 Publisher: New Society Publishers Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development) by John Caldwell Holt ISBN: 0201484021 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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