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Almost everyone who talks or writes about learning situations that are open, free, non-coercive, learner-directed, calls these situations “unstructured,” and their traditional authoritarian, coercive, teacher-directed opposites “structured.” People who support open learning use these words in this way as much as people who oppose it. It is a serious error. There are no such things as “unstructured” situations. They are not possible. Every human situation, however casual and unforced—and this is part of the point of my story about the children playing—has a structure.

Quote ID: 01951

Author

John Holt

Source

Freedom And Beyond

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