"If we want a country where people will resist the growing pressures to conformity and servility, and will vigorously defend their own rights and the rights of others, then we had better begin to give children some real freedom in school: freedom to move, freedom to talk, to plan and use their time, to direct and assess their own learning, to act and be treated like sensible human beings."
John Caldwell Holt – The Underachieving school 1968
John Caldwell Holt – The Underachieving school 1968
Writings about things that matter in education
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Originally written Friday 3rd November 2017
edited Friday, 6th July, 2018
edited Friday, 6th July, 2018