Underachieving School

By: John Holt

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Paperback | 1 September 2005

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The Underachieving School is a collection of essays and articles written and compiled by Holt, each brimming with inspiration and ideas on how to teach children—taking into account the ways in which children actually learn. Through his original thinking, clear and thoughtful writing, and firsthand accounts of what does and doesn’t work in education, this book shows us the difference between learning and schooling.

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John Holt displays again with undiminished clarity a kindly intellect that is strong, eloquent and compassionate, holding out to a nation trapped in ignorance a rational way to light the darkness. -- Jonathan Kozol Life This book may stir up almost as much debate as John Dewey's Democracy and Education. Library Journal With our schooling situation growing ever more deplorable, Holt's work is more critically needed than ever. He spells out the problem and its solution with such clarity and simplicity that any parent can read him and every parent should. We ignore his prophetic vision at our peril. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiv
True Learning	p. 1
A Little Learning	p. 3
Schools Are Bad Places for Kids	p. 9
The Fourth R: The Rat Race	p. 23
Teachers Talk Too Much	p. 32
The Tyranny of Testing	p. 36
Not So Golden Rule Days	p. 49
Making Children Hate Reading	p. 55
Order and Disorder	p. 66
Teaching the Unteachable	p. 72
Education for the Future	p. 77
Blackboard Bungle	p. 96
Children in Prison	p. 100
Comic Truth on an Urgent Problem	p. 114
Talk	p. 117
Letter	p. 142
Bibliography	p. 144
Acknowledgements	p. 146
About the Author	p. 148
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