Big proponent of Un Schooling/Home School-ing. Died in 1985.

http://www.holtgws.com/

1. interview http://www.naturalchild.com/guest/marlene_bumgarner.html

2. [Mother Earth] interview http://www.bloomington.in.us/~learn/Holt.htm

origins of Home School-ing http://www.mhla.org/HoltOrigins.htm

http://www.hometaught.com/john_holt.htm

http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC06/Holt.htm

[Instead Of Education] ISBN:1591810094

Educat Ion (Educating Kids) cannot succeed as long as it is compulsory (Coerc Ion).

Profile of [Ny Lilleskole] in Denmark.

• [We Have To Call It School] VidEo is online

To make schooling work, we must

• stop making it compulsory

• provide non-school methods of Certificat Ion

• have schools stop ranking/rating people (Bell Curve)

• have schools stop making pscho-babble evaluations of students, and just give them grades

  • have these grades be "owned" by the student, never distributed without permission, originals handed over to student

Emphasis on Learning By Doing.

[Teach Your Own] ISBN:0738206946

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