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Title: Escape from childhood by John Caldwell Holt ISBN: 0-525-09955-7 Publisher: E. P. Dutton Pub. Date: 1974 Format: Unknown Binding List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Eye-opening
Comment: The New York Times called this book "astonishly cogent," and I agree. This is one of the most insightful and thought-provoking books I've ever read. Sadly, 30 years later almost nothing has changed. While the ACLU fights for the voting rights of convicted felons, a 17-year-old "child," no matter how sensible or informed, cannot cast a ballot in the United States. Millions of children are shipped off to school every day, where they are mostly taught to do as they're told (no matter how arbitrary or pointless) and above all, conform--lessons which will serve them all too well for decades to come. The transparency of Holt's writing should also be an example to authors everywhere. It is a tragedy that this book is out of print, and Holt no longer with us. The world desperately needs more like him.
Rating: 1
Summary: Crazy...
Comment: This guy is a psycho-boomer looney. His book serves best as kindling.
Rating: 5
Summary: Holt at his best!
Comment: This is my favorite book of the many Holt has written. It does not cover any aspects of learning/educational issues as do his other books. Instead it addresses the matter of looking at children as whole individuals who should be treated respectably, as any adult would want to be.
Our culture too readily encourages parents, and adults in general, to use their voice in a excessively authorative manner which only serves to bully and demean children. No one would want to be spoken to or treated in such a condensending manner. This book will open your eyes to the damage we are doing to our beloved kids when we accept the cultural standard way of parenting. Highly recommended!
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Title: Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling by John Holt, Patrick Farenga, Pat Farenga ISBN: 0738206946 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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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: 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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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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