Deschooling Our LivesMatt Hern A provocative, practical response to the crisis in our schools, this book argues boldly for replacing compulsory schooling with a wide variety of home, neighborhood, and community-based educational efforts. Hern examines how the day-to-day experience of school teaches subservience, deadens children's natural love of learning, undercuts their self-esteem, and limits independent thought. |
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... Holt is the grandfather of the deschooling and homeschooling movements in North America . His remarkable personality and clear vision of an unschooled world is as poignant now as when it was written . Holt's work speaks to so many ...
... Holt is the grandfather of the deschooling and homeschooling movements in North America . His remarkable personality and clear vision of an unschooled world is as poignant now as when it was written . Holt's work speaks to so many ...
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... Holt Associates , and what , in a sense , homeschoolers are doing as they simultaneously try to live in a way that ... Holt's imagined tour guide lives in . But what would it look like ? How would people live ? What would no longer be ...
... Holt Associates , and what , in a sense , homeschoolers are doing as they simultaneously try to live in a way that ... Holt's imagined tour guide lives in . But what would it look like ? How would people live ? What would no longer be ...
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... Holt , John , Escape from Childhood . Boston : Holt Associates , 1974 . Holt , John , Freedom and Beyond . New York : Dell , 1972. This is one of Holt's last works , in which he carefully develops his conception of freedom . Holt , John ...
... Holt , John , Escape from Childhood . Boston : Holt Associates , 1974 . Holt , John , Freedom and Beyond . New York : Dell , 1972. This is one of Holt's last works , in which he carefully develops his conception of freedom . Holt , John ...
Contents
Matt Hern | 1 |
Designed to Destroy Individual Thought? | 39 |
Geraldine LynPiluso Gus LynPiluso and Duncan Clarke | 48 |
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