John Holt Quotations

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.

We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards.

If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.

He has accepted that he may well have been less forthright in his comments if he had been aware.

I think we very well may take it public again in 2007. We're going to make sure we explore every nook and cranny of America's economic landscape.

You know what you want and you go in and get it. If you need more time, explanation, help with your financial goals, these smaller banks can help you, but they may not be able to offer the Wal-Mart pricing.

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Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in, we use their fears as handles to manipulate them and get them to do what we want

If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.

If you look at them the wrong way, they'll pull a gun on you. So now is the time to stay cool.

if I'd have tripped, I wouldn't have made it.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

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