“A life worth living and work worth doing—that is what I want for children (and all people), not just, or not even, something called a ‘better education.’” —John Holt, 1983.
Edited by Susannah Sheffer, her selection of letters and her introduction about John Holt is one of the best summaries of Holt's life and work. John’s letters look at the relation between struggling for an individual life worth living and a collective one, at what it means to see one's own life's work in terms of the larger world.
Sheffer writes, “Holt was always more influenced by his own experience, his own observations about children, than by anything else. The work of others sometimes illuminated these observations, to be sure, sometimes helped Holt interpret them in a new way. But, as George Dennison wrote of Holt after his death, he “never derived theory from theory, but stayed as close as possible to experience itself. His entire career was really based on this, this making sense of experience.”
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“A life worth living and work worth doing—that is what I want for children (and all people), not just, or not even, something called a ‘better education.’” —John Holt, 1983.
Edited by Susannah Sheffer, her selection of letters and her introduction about John Holt is one of the best summaries of Holt's life and work. John’s letters look at the relation between struggling for an individual life worth living and a collective one, at what it means to see one's own life's work in terms of the larger world.
Sheffer writes, “Holt was always more influenced by his own experience, his own observations about children, than by anything else. The work of others sometimes illuminated these observations, to be sure, sometimes helped Holt interpret them in a new way. But, as George Dennison wrote of Holt after his death, he “never derived theory from theory, but stayed as close as possible to experience itself. His entire career was really based on this, this making sense of experience.”
This book is no longer in print, but used paperback copies are available.
Please scroll down to view the book formats for purchase.
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