“The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.”

—  John Holt

Growing Without Schooling magazine, no. 40 (1984).

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educator 1923–1985

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