John Holt citáty

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✵ 14. duben 1923 – 14. září 1985

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John Holt citáty a výroky

„Skutečným testem inteligence není to, kolik toho umíme, ale jak se chováme, když nevíme, co dělat.“

John Holt: Citáty anglicky

“The true test of intelligence 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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John Holt kniha How Children Fail

How Children Fail (1964).

“No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors.”

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John Holt kniha Escape from Childhood

Escape from Childhood (1974).

“The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.”

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Growing Without Schooling magazine, no. 40 (1984).

“It is not just power, but impotence, that corrupts people. It gives them the mind and soul of slaves. It makes them indifferent, lazy, cynical, irresponsible, and, above all, stupid.”

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John Holt kniha Escape from Childhood

Escape from Childhood (1974).

“The anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know.”

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John Holt kniha How Children Learn

How Children Learn (1967).

“The idea of painless, non-threatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence. If you think it your duty to make children do what you want, whether they will or not, then it follows inexorably that you must make them afraid of what will happen to them if they don’t do what you want.”

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John Holt kniha How Children Fail

How Children Fail (1964).

“All I am saying in this book can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted.”

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John Holt kniha How Children Learn

How Children Learn (1967).