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"Children do not need to be made to learn," Holt maintains, because each is born with what Einstein called "the holy curiosity of inquiry." For them, learning is as natural as breathing. First published in 1967, How Children Learn has become a classic for parents and teachers, providing an... read more

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In the early sixties, when I wrote much of the original How Children Learn, few psychologists were paying close attention to the learning of very young children.

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  1. John Caldwell Holt (Author)
 

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