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Instead of Education: Way to Help People Do Things Better (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Instead of EducationJohn Holt is credited with launching today's huge and still growing homeschooling movement. This book is his most direct and radical challenge to the educational status quo and a clarion to call parents to save their children from schools of all kinds. Holt advocates self-directed learning and a creative life.
Full description- Publisher: Sentient Publications
- Published: 01 June 2004
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Philosophy & Theory Of Education | Educational Strategies & Policy | Open Learning, Home Learning, Distance Education
- ISBN 13: 9781591810094 ISBN 10: 1591810094
- Sales rank: 36,307
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Holt's emphasis on solutions distinguishes this book from others that are critical of our failing educational system. The book is packed with ideas about and examples of creating learning opportunities and environments outside the established educational structure. Holt's ideas are as fresh and relevant as they ever were -- in fact, more so now, as our educational system has only grown worse in the years since this book was written. He firmly believes in learning by doing, and makes the point that schools stifle children's creativity and individuality. He describes actual non-compulsory schools, learning centres, and informal learning arrangements in action. Reading this brilliant educator revolutionises our thinking about what schooling is for and what we can do to accomplish its true goals.
