John Holt - How Children Fail 🔥 Pro

Holt observed that instead of trying to understand material, students develop "strategies" to dodge adult demands and "fish" for right answers:

: Children learn to read a teacher's body language or facial expressions for clues to the "right" answer. John Holt - How Children Fail

Holt identifies three primary psychological barriers that prevent real learning in the classroom: Holt observed that instead of trying to understand

: The curriculum is often trivial, dull, and disconnected from a child's real interests, making narrow demands on their intelligence. making narrow demands on their intelligence.