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	John Holt and the Origins of Contemporary Homeschooling
		Holt did not feel the school establishment was serious about change in the ways he wanted to go, such as changing the relationship of the child to the teacher and the school to the community.
		Holt urged educators and parents to catch the spirit of unschooling, be inspired by the variety of approaches and methods homeschoolers show, and reconsider assumptions about schooling based on what ordinary parents, as well as some alternative schools, were doing with children.
		Holt often wrote that there is no need to duplicate institutional teaching and assumptions in non-institutional settings, and he therefore saw no need to make parents anxious about their abilities to learn from their children how to best teach them.
	mhla.org /information/resourcesarticles/holtorigins.htm (2943 words)

	John Holt Page
		John Holt was born on April 14, 1923 in New York City, the oldest of three children, and raised in the New England area of the US.
		However, Holt felt little support from universities for the sorts of school reforms he, and others, were advocating, and he sought other avenues for change.
		Holt eventually decided that schools could not be reformed and spent his remaining years thinking about, supporting, and writing about places where and people from whom children could learn without conventional schooling.
	www.holtgws.com /johnholtpage.html (484 words)

	Chapter 3, The Legacy of John Holt
		John Holt was one of the key figures in the free school movement.
		Moreover, Holt was a sensitive, inquisitive observer and social critic whose journey from fifth-grade teacher to free school activist to homeschooling advocate reveals a great deal about the whirlwind course of events during the 1960s and early 1970s.
		Holt was an accurate barometer, as well as shaper, of the rapidly evolving radical educational ideology of the time.
	www.spinninglobe.net /johnholt.htm (1353 words)

	John Holt - Growing Without Schooling
		John: Families who report that their school districts have offered them the option of part-time voluntary use of the schools have for the most part not made very much use of it because in fact there isn't that much interesting going on in most schools.
		John: This is fairly rare percentage-wise, but there are families, single or two parent families, where the parents work out of the house in an environment where they cannot take the children, so the parents go off to work and the kids stay home.
		John: I guess my ideal educational system would be a society in which knowledge was widely free and widely and freely shared, and children were everywhere trusted, respected, safe, valued, and welcomed.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC06/Holt.htm (4351 words)

	SIR JOHN HOLT - LoveToKnow Article on SIR JOHN HOLT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His father, Sir Thomas Holt, possessed a small patrimonial estate, but in order to supplement his income had adopted the profession of law, in which he was not very successful, although he became sergeant in 1677, and afterwards for his political services to the Tories was rewarded with knighthood.
		Having been requested to supply a number of police to help the soldiery in quelling a riot, he assured the messenger that if any of the people were shot he would have the soldiers hanged, and proceeding himself to the scene of riot he was successful in preventing bloodshed.
		Reports of Cases determined by Sir John Holt (1681-1710) appeared at London in 1738; and The Judgments delivered in the case of Ashby v.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HO/HOLT_SIR_JOHN.htm (642 words)

	John Holt
		John Holt was born on April 14, 1923 in New York, New York to Henry and Elizabeth Holt.
		Holt did not begin to write until he had had many of years of experience teaching young children, and his most persistent theme is that the system ignores what it knows, or should know about how children learn.
		John Holt is considered the father of unschooling and the person who coined the term.
	www.selu.edu /Academics/Faculty/nadams/educ692/Holt.html (902 words)

	John Caldwell Holt - FUN Books
		John Caldwell Holt (1923-85) is recognized by many as the father of the modern homeschooling movement and the person who coined the term "unschooling." He was the author of ten books about education.
		Holt's words are every bit as inspiring today and show a timeless common-sense that will have nodding your head in agreement as you read along.
		John Holt was a keen and astute observer of children, with a passionate conviction that our children deserve much better.
	www.fun-books.com /authors/John_Holt.htm (1044 words)

	John Holt
		Holt, however, merely picked up the pace of his solo recordings, cutting songs for a variety of different producers.
		It was during this period that both Holt and Brown became involved in a plot by veteran singers to fight the DJ phenomenon by saturating the market with vocal material.
		Holt's relationship with U-Roy wasn't unique; Isaacs, for example, had a stream of hits with Trinity, a DJ Brown had also cut a single with.
	www.reggaemovement.com /Artists/johnholt.htm (1810 words)

	Big Names in Education: John Holt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Holt (1923-1985), sometimes hailed as the father of "unschooling," was an educator who fought for school reform before it was fashionable, and is best known for his support of an educational philosophy from which the phrase, "growing without schooling," was coined.
		To hear Holt speak for himself, and for a first-hand testimony of child-directed learning, see Growing Without Schooling, an interview with John Holt by Robert Gilman.
		Holt's basic philosophy can be summed up as follows: children are naturally good at learning and are highly motivated; there is no need for formal curriculum, or "school-at-home"; real life experiences, community resources, and interaction with parents and other mentors are the best sources of education.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/home_schooling/16635 (453 words)

	John Holt (HomeTaught) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Holt hit upon the idea that common school buildings were not really necessary to accomplish the goals of free schools: child-led, interest-based learning.
		John Holt’s premise was that children would learn if given the freedom to learn—on their own, in their own way, in their own time.
		John Holt, who correctly identified the loss of individuality inherent in government schooling and urged parents to keep their kids at home, was wrong when it came to how to best educate.
	www.hometaught.com /homeschooling/ed_philosophy/john_holt.aspx (2041 words)

	A Conversation with John Holt - The Natural Child Project
		In 1980, Marlene Bumgarner, a homeschooling parent, hosted author John Holt in her home while he was in California for a lecture tour.
		John Holt was speaking to a school audience, describing his views on the their structured curriculum, a student asked him, "But surely there must be something important enough that everyone should learn it?" He thought for a moment and replied, "To learn to say ‘I’m sorry’, ‘I don’t know’, and ‘I was wrong’." [unpublished anecdote]
		Her son John, now 24, is pictured in a photo with John Holt on the back cover of Learning All the Time (Holt, 1990).
	www.naturalchild.com /guest/marlene_bumgarner.html (2173 words)

	John Holt Reading List
		Holt identifies many of the sources of children's oppression and proposes radical alternatives, including plans for children's educational, familial, economic, and political freedom.
		But Holt thoughtfully and sensitively manages to share his devotions and insights about learning, children and life in general so clearly that even the most hesitant parent can gain confidence in his and her child's ability to unschool.
		Holt's profound observations help not only to understand how children tackle these subjects but also to gain a better understanding of these subjects ourselves.
	www.freechild.org /ReadingList/john_holt.htm (722 words)

	JOHN HOLT - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		John Holt is easily one of Jamaica's most accomplished musicians, and next month, the velvet-voiced singer who has delivered some of the island's most defining hits will be honoured by the government with an Order of Distinction for his contribution to Jamaican culture.
		Holt was born in Greenwich Farm in Kingston, and spent his young years growing up in various communities in south St Andrew.
		By this time, Holt was bitten by the music bug, and from 1958 to 1962, he performed regularly on the show, until he finally won the competition in 1962.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /lifestyle/html/20040926T070000-0500_66639_OBS_JOHN_HOLT_.asp (1557 words)

	John Holt 1980 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Holt was one of the leaders of that drive to make educational institutions more child--rather than teacher--centered.
		HOLT: College was a very bad experience for me. I knew there was a "trick" to doing well in school, and it didn't seem to me that the trick was worth doing.
		HOLT: Well, I first thought all you'd have to do to be able to home-school a youngster would be to tell the public school authorities that you were going to send your child to private school.
	www.bloomington.in.us /~learn/Holt.htm (6221 words)

	John Holt’s: How Children Learn
		Indeed, Holt asserts that stammering and stuttering are the consequences for some children of destroyed self esteem.
		Holt, with his trust children philosophy, believes, perhaps naively, that they have a strong sense of what is right and have an innate self correcting mechanism that will help them to (eventually) solve a problem.
		Holt believes that learning can be pleasurable and that learning in the form of games can be the first step in having children embrace a lifetime of learning.
	www.educationreformbooks.net /how_learn.htm (680 words)

	John Holt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Holt - the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
		John Caldwell Holt (1923-1985) - teacher and author
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Holt (84 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: How Children Learn (Classics in Child Development) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Holt is fascinated by the notion that children accomplish so much before formal schooling begins and realizes that the way school is set up goes directly in opposition to what is natural and has worked for these children up to the point they are sent off to school.
		Holt observes with delight and amazement, these young children who are friends and relatives (they are not his students or participants in a research projects).
		Holt shows through his experiences that not only do we not need to force children to learn, or to teach them much, but that teaching (and especially coersion) are counterproductive to learning.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201484048?v=glance (2425 words)

	Creating Learning Communities
		John Holt (1923-1985) taught in private progressive schools in Colorado and the Boston area in the 1950s and early 1960s.
		Holt wrote numerous articles for popular publications, toured the country speaking to parents and students, and helped many people start “free schools” as alternatives to public schooling.
		Holt advocated for “unschooling”—allowing children to learn through their interactions with the adult world rather than through formal instruction.
	www.creatinglearningcommunities.org /book/overview/miller2.htm (1489 words)

	The Holt Family Coat of Arms and Family History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thus a man named John who hailed from Holt might be know as 'John (of) Holt', and William who lived near a wood as 'William (of the) Holt', the additional name in each case eventually becoming hereditary as a surname.
		Roger John Holt tells me "By the way, a holt is also an otter's den." In addition, according to the Calontir Order of Precedence Page (broken link), the following record of the Order of the Companions of the Torse has been recorded: "8/30/86 Ravyn of Otter's Holt Hrafnar O'Traravinar, Ravyn Ottersfriend".
		Holt, a parilmentary and municipal borough of North Wales, county of Denbigh.
	www.holt.org /holtgen.html (5262 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Holt was bothered by certain trends he noticed in the classroom -- among both the teachers and the students -- and started analyzing what he saw over the course of several years.
		Holt takes a moment, for instance, to talk about New Math, and shows that it doesn't matter how good the New Math is when it's just the Bad Old Math in disguise: "cook-bookery," as he puts it; a mindless set of recipes for getting right answers.
		Holt was a school teacher that had alot of his own ideas about why students didn't do things or said certian things or even why they "failed".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201484021?v=glance (1932 words)

	Unschooling or Homeschooling? - F.U.N. News, #12
		In issue #2, John Holt used the term unschooling, but it was used as a general term for what we now call homeschooling.
		In issue #118 of GWS, Aaron Falbel tells us that Holt wrote in issue #2 of GWS (Nov. 1977) that they [GWS] would use unschooling "when we mean taking kids out of school." Falbel goes on to say that it wasn't until the early 1980's that the term homeschooling became more popular.
		In Holt's early writings, he seemed to hold out hope that the school system could be fixed, but he later became more convinced that parents were better off taking their kids out of schools.
	www.unschooling.org /fun12_unschooling.htm (1369 words)

	John Holt
		Nevertheless, Holt comes through as always, showing why he is one of the great songwriters in reggae history.
		John Holt deserves a comprehensive box set of his work as much as any reggae artist out there, and I had high hopes that John Holt Story would fit the bill.
		The Barry White of reggae, John Holt may have been responsible for as many pregnancies as White during the '70s (not to insinuate that he was the father, of course).
	www.reggae-reviews.com /johnholt.html (315 words)

	Common Objections to Homeschooling - The Natural Child Project
		As the young man went to the back of the car, John L.'s friend said to him, "Are you going to let him get away with that?." John L. shrugged and said, "Oh, I don't see why not." His friend became very indignant.
		What we need to pull our countries more together are more people who can afford to be polite, and much more - kind, patient, generous, forgiving, and tolerant, able and willing, not just to stand people different from themselves, but to make an effort to understand them, to see the world through their eyes.
		John Holt's deep insights into the child's mind have become increasingly appreciated as we try to make both schools and homes better places for children to learn.
	www.naturalchild.com /common_objections/index.html (11566 words)

	Brian's Education Blog • John Holt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If I had to name a single person who made me interested in education to the point where I would one day decide to start an education blog, that person would be John Holt.
		What struck me most about Holt when I first read him was that he was just as opposed to the bogus liberation of "progressive" ideas as then mostly understood, as he was to what I have been describing in this blog as the "Prussian" approach.
		I think John Holt is still fairly well known among homeschoolers and especially unschoolers.
	www.brianmicklethwait.com /education/archives/000072.htm (558 words)

	Homeschooling: Back to the Future?
		John Holt, an Ivy League graduate and a teacher in alternative schools, was decrying the lack of humanity toward schoolchildren, even in the most compassionate school settings.
		Holt, who had long advocated the reform of schools, became increasingly frustrated that so few parents were willing to work toward change within the system.
		Holt, a humanist, became a cult figure of sorts to the wing of the homeschooling movement that drew together New Age devotees, ex-hippies, and homesteaders--the countercultural left.
	www.cato.org /pubs/pas/pa-294.html (5810 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Holt (1923-1985) is the author of How Children Learn and How Children Fail, which together have sold over one and a half million copies.
		Pat Farenga, writer and president of Holt Associates, lectures all over the country and is the father of three home-schooled daughters.
		In this unofficial treatise for the homeschooling movement, John Holt, longtime private school teacher, maintains that the traditional classroom model no longer works and may, in fact, ruin kids for learning.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0738206946 (554 words)

	John W. Holt
		Jack Holt is using airborne gravity and magnetics in conjunction with subglacial topography from radar sounding to delineate crustal boundaries and characterize active tectonics in the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica.
		Holt, J.W., E.W. Holt, and J.M. Stock, An age constraint on Gulf of California rigting from the Boleo Copper District, Baja California Sur, Mexico, GSA Bulletin, v.112(4), pp.
		Holt, J.W., J.L. Kirschvink, The upper Olduvai reversal from Death valley, California: A fold test of transitional directions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 133.
	www.ig.utexas.edu /people/staff/jack (537 words)

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