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Once we understand that some of the things we teachers do may be helpful, some merely useless, and some downright harmful, we can begin to ask which is which. But only teachers can ask such questions and use their daily work with students to test their answers. All other kinds of research into ways of improving teaching lead mostly to expensive fads and nonsense.

Quote ID: 01499

Author

John Holt

Source

How Children Fail

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