Volume 10, Number 1 · January 18, 1968
How Teachers Fail
By Herbert R Kohl
How Children Learn
by John Holt
Pitman, 189 pp., $4.95
John Holt's first book, How Children Fail, described the strategies of avoidance and failure children adopt in school when they feel pressed to reproduce whatever their teachers consider is necessary for learning. It shows how nervous and unhappy children try to figure out what their teachers expect of them, rather than learn what they themselves care to know. Therefore, it is not surprising that when Holt turns his attention from failure to learning, he studies primarily children who have not yet been to school and have never been taught formally.
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