John holt sayings

John Holt was an American educator and author known for his work in the field of homeschooling and alternative education. Here are some of his notable sayings:

1. "Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded."

2. "The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."

3. "Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners."

4. "The human animal is a learning animal; we like to learn; we are good at it; we don't need to be shown how or made to do it."

5. "We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way."

6. "The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching."

7. "The child is curious. He wants to make sense out of things, find out how things work, gain competence and control over himself and his environment, and do what he can see other people doing."

8. "The anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know."

9. "We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards, gold stars, or papers marked 100 and tacked to the wall, or A's on report cards, or honor rolls, or dean's lists, or Phi Beta Kappa keys."

10. "The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching."

Above is John holt sayings.