Interview with John Holt
An audio interview on Youtube with John Holt who discusses the ‘return to basics’ movement in American education in the early 1980s. Very interesting analysis of schools and education at the time and the American government’s review which advocated a concentration on literacy, numeracy and testing to drive up standards.
“How can education be changed?” – John Holt (1983)
“The single most harmful ideas of all the ideas that have undone our schools is that children won’t learn unless they are made to, the second is that they won’t do it unless you show them how.” (37:30)
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