Freedom Is Slavery

I'm rereading John Holt's great book How Children Fail (Pitman, 1964), which has been on my mind since I wrote about rewards, punishments, and competition last week. I first thought of digging it out when a friend thought that when I criticized traditional modes of schooling, I meant how poor kids schools in poor districts suffered "in our inequitable system." As I pointed out at the time, I

Freedom Is Slavery

I'm rereading John Holt's great book How Children Fail (Pitman, 1964), which has been on my mind since I wrote about rewards, punishments, and competition last week. I first thought of digging it out when a friend thought that when I criticized traditional modes of schooling, I meant how poor kids schools in poor districts suffered "in our inequitable system." As I pointed out at the time, I