Learning All The Time
Published by Joanne on September 9, 2009
This highly opinionated former teacher and original thinker spent the last half of his life challenging widely accepted classroom practices. The author of 10 books that concentrate on early child development and education, Holt is widely considered the father of the modern-day homeschooling movement because he grew to believe that schools stifle the learning process. In this, his final book, compiled by colleagues from drafts, letters, and magazine essays written by Holt before he died in 1985, he strings together his own observations and philosophies to show how young children can be encouraged to learn everything from reading and math to music and science.(more…)
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