Quotes from book
Escape from Childhood

Escape from Childhood
John Holt

Escape from Childhood: The Needs and Rights of Children is a book by John Caldwell Holt. ISBN 978-0-345-24434-5

“No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors.”

John Holt book Escape from Childhood

Escape from Childhood (1974).

“It is not just power, but impotence, that corrupts people. It gives them the mind and soul of slaves. It makes them indifferent, lazy, cynical, irresponsible, and, above all, stupid.”

John Holt book Escape from Childhood

Escape from Childhood (1974).

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