John
Holt
1964
In
1964 Holt published his first book, How Children Fail, asserting that the
academic failure of schoolchildren was not despite the efforts of the schools,
but actually because of the schools. Not surprisingly, How Children Fail
ignited a firestorm of controversy. Holt was catapulted into the American
national consciousness to the extent that he made appearances on major TV talk
shows, wrote book reviews for Life magazine, and was a guest on the To Tell The
Truth TV game show. In his follow-up work, How Children Learn, published in
1967, Holt tried to elucidate the learning process of children and why he
believed school short circuits that process.
I disagree to his philosophy blaming the school alone to the outcome of the children's learning, because I personally believe that genetics has something to do with it.
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