Instead Of Education !

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INSTEAD OF EDUCATION (P)
Ways to Help People Do Things Better
by John Holt
Sentient Publications, 2004, paperback

Why being pushed around may not be the best way to learn

This book inspired Grace Llewellyn to quit her job as
a public school teacher and investigate freer ways of
learning.

John Holt, whose writings did so much to inspire the
modern homeschooling movement, is best known for the
classic How Children Fail. But Instead of Education is
also a gold mine, offering many provocative insights
about how children learn best when free to learn the
things that most interest them -- whether reading,
math, dance or gymnastics -- instead of being forced
to attend to the things of most interest to somebody
else. A teacher, Holt argues, should assist in this
self-directed process. Learning doesn't have to be the
teeth-pulling torture that many educators make of it.

Holt has penned as radical a brief for "unschooling"
as you'll ever find. And a persuasive one. Even the
most skeptical reader is likely to come away nodding
more than he expected. As a bonus, Holt is an
eminently engaging and thoughtful writer -- just darn
fun to read.

"Be clear about this: Instead of Education, although
less widely known than his more famous titles, is John
Holt at the top of his game. If you are one of the
millions of walking wounded still staggering from your
own encounter with forced institutional schooling, and
trying to spare your own kids from its damage, this
book will be your guide and a good friend."
--John Taylor Gatto, author of Dumbing Us Down

"This book turned my thinking upside down and change
the course of my life -- it inspired me to let go of
my career as a frustrated schoolteacher in favor of
exploring and then advocating self-directed learning."
--Grace Llewellyn, author of The Teenage Liberation
Handbook

"As radically relevant to the educational challenges
of our generation as it was to his."
--Ron Miller, Ph.D., author of Free Schools, Free People

"Power cancels out moral rights and obligations. The
slave has no moral duty to his master. He has every
moral right to dodge and escape the whip if he can,
any way he can. No one is morally obliged to hold
still for punishment. A ten-year-old, a proud, brave,
stubborn child, of great character, helped me to see
this. One day she refused to go to French class, which
she (sensibly) hated. She sat at her desk reading,
while I kept telling her to go. Finally I said that it
was my job and my duty to make her go to French class,
and that if I could not get her to go any other way I
would drag her there. She did not move. I approached
her desk, ready to carry out my threat. When I was
about three feet away she suddenly looked up, slammed
the book shut, banged it on the desk, stood up, and
said, 'All right, I'm going! But it's just brute force
that is making me go, just brute force!' She was
right; that's all it was."
--from Instead of Education

250 pages

Unquote

Uwe Hayek.

--
To be controlled in our economic pursuits,
is to be controlled in everything -- F.A.Hayek.

Magna est veritas et praevalebit
(great is truth, and shall prevail)
-- Del Kennedy

Government is not the solution,
government is the problem.
-- Ronald Reagan.

Once a government is committed to the principle of
silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way
to go, and that is down the path of increasingly
repressive measures, until it becomes a source of
terror to all its citizens and creates a country where
everyone lives in fear.
-- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), August 8, 1950


Wie het kleine niet eert, valt op negers.
-- Karin Bloemen

Ik geloof niet meer in Evolutie !
-- Huize Hayek te Heist.