How Children Learn

Sep 3, 1995
Paperback
US $16.00
CAN $19.50
UK £11.99
ISBN: 9780201484045
ISBN-10: 0201484048
Published by Da Capo Press

Description

This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, “learning is as natural as breathing.” In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at how we learn to talk, to read, to count, and to reason, and how we can nurture and encourage these natural abilities in our children.”

Reviews

“Let us listen again to an extraordinary teacher.”
— Vivian Gussin Paley, University of Chicago, Laboratory Schools

“By his vision of what might be done in education, he makes us think in new ways about what is being done.”
— Wall Street Journal

“Mr. Holt has a log to say about children that is original, acute, and worthy of our closest attention.”
— New York Times Book Review

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