exaggerated, and an opinionated piece of writing that’s been filled with far too many
generalizations about what and how a child should “learn” in school. It’s ridiculous that John Holt viewed school as something actually detrimental. Although it’s difficult to entirely disagree about his claims in every single point in his writing because some of it is applicable to certain types of students and school. Ultimately school was built for the purpose of aiding society develop. School also plays an important and essential role beginning with learning about the basis of society that child lives in, the basic interaction with another individual to create social skills, and discipline taught in classrooms that will be necessary in the real world. In the time period Holt lived in may have …show more content…
The child is asked to stay put, listen, and observe the teacher. The first lesson that is taught by the teachers and bluntly state that “Learning is separate from Living”(Page 1, 2nd paragraph) and more lessons include that none of the child’s prior thoughts matter, nothing is worth doing for it’s own sake, and how to avoid actually learning by being dependent for the answers from the teacher. John Holt then states an alternative on how to actually teach a child and suggests to get rid grades and the standard curriculums should be eliminated since children only remember what they often use. Holt ended his article stating “Children want, more than anything else- is to make sense of the world..” (Pg.2, 10th paragraph) and it can be accomplished with the help that is logical to them; an ending suggestion thats hard to argue