Growing Without Schooling / HoltGWS LLC (ePub)

"I have come to believe that a person's schooling is as much a part of his private business as his politics or religion, and that no one should be required to answer questions about it. May I say instead that most of what I know I did not learn in school, and indeed was not even 'taught.'"-John Holt

John Holt (1927-1985) was a fifth-grade teacher who gained fame in the 1960s as an insightful school critic, then again in the late 1970s as a founder of the homeschooling movement. Holt's first books, How Children Fail and How Children Learn, have been in print for over 50 years and combined have sold nearly 2 million copies.

Holt's later books explored alternatives to school that could be implemented or that existed for people to use now. In 1977 Holt founded the first magazine about learning outside school and homeschooling, Growing Without Schooling, published until 2001.

Holt presents learning as a constant human endeavor and throughout his work he shows how education can be envisioned as a way to support self-directed education-from changing classroom practices to support for learning among one's family and local community.

To learn more about John Holt visit wwwJohnHoltGWS.com.

Patrick Farenga is a leading authority on homeschooling who brings more than 37 years of fieldwork, advocacy, and personal experience (he and his wife homeschooled their three daughters, now grown women) to help parents and children learn in their own ways. Farenga is a writer and education activist who addresses academic and general audiences about working with children, not on children, to help them learn.

Farenga worked closely with one of the founders of the modern homeschooling movement, the late author and teacher John Holt, as well as with many of the key figures in homeschooling, such as Dr. Raymond Moore and Ivan Illich.

Farenga continues Holt's work and published Growing Without Schooling magazine (GWS) from 1985 until it stopped in 2001. GWS was the

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