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John Holt
American
Educator
Before
Find
Love
Pay
People
Will
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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
John Holt
Love
Future
Needs
Knowledge
Learning
People
Try
Will
Whatever
Out
Able
Advance
Instead
Since
Know
Most
Well
Learn
Learned
Senseless
Turn
Much
Should
Teach
Who
Needed
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
John Holt
Experience
People
Free
Find
Kinds
Make
Educational
Children
Want
Themselves
Should
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
John Holt
Problems
Will
Before
Pay
Pay Attention
Back
Slip
Threats
Attention
Him
Does
Materials
His
Off
Child
Situations
Interest
Them
Shout
Use
Amount
Bring
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