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Loading... How Children Fail (original 1964; edition 1971)by John Holt
Work InformationHow Children Fail by John Holt (1964)
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   laplantelibrary | Dec 6, 2022 |  The copy I read was a later re-issue. It was certainly a different way of doing an updated revision. Normally when I read such its the exact same book with only a few paragraphs re-edited due to some new information, or updated references, since the original publishing. However This one kept the entire original in tact and the added additional commentary where the author had changed his mind since the original publishing, marked as such. I'm not clear if I really liked that or not, but it certainly made for a significantly longer book. Holt argues that children fail because school is set up in a way that most kids are too afraid to actually learn. They need or want the right answer, but cramming for tests only ensures they don't actually know what they are being taught. I lot of focus on math and the wildly disconnected "ideas" children have about it. (  ) fulner | Mar 4, 2020 | ritaer | Feb 27, 2020 | A few takeaways: - "children fail because they are afraid, confused, and bored:" this seems like a pretty helpful framework, not only for thinking about the circumstances in which children disengage, but also for thinking about how adults lose motivation. - the idea of "producers" vs. "thinkers." I see "producer" behavior frequently, even among adults, where people freeze up and stop thinking when they feel pressure to give the right answer. I do think that framing it as behaviors instead of character traits might be more helpful. - John Holt's journey from "how can I make school work for these kids?" to "School sucks, kids need to learn in self-directed ways" is fascinating to follow. ( ) haagen_daz | Jun 6, 2019 | ) MichelleConnell | Sep 26, 2018 |
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