Full name: Instead of Education: Ways to Help People do Things Better

Author: John Holt Year: 1977 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Education, Parenting, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781591810094 1591810094

John Holt is credited with launching today's huge and still growing homeschooling movement. This book is his most direct and radical challenge to the educational status quo and a clarion to call parents to save their children from schools of all kinds. Holt advocates self-directed learning and a creative life. Similar books: Teach Your Own by John Holt What do I do Monday? by John Holt The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn Learning All The Time by John Holt Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto Deschooling Our Lives by Matt Hern How Children Fail by John Holt Guerrilla Learning by Grace Llewellyn The Paideia of God by Douglas Wilson Inside American Education by Thomas Sowell How Children Learn by John Holt Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning by Douglas Wilson How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig Montessori by Paula Polk Lillard The Unschooled Mind by Howard Gardner You Can't Say You Can't Play by Vivian Gussin Paley Family Matters by David Guterson Character Matters by Thomas Lickona Homeschooling for Excellence by David Colfax Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto