How children fail

By John Caldwell Holt

Subjects: Educational psychology, Dropouts, Promotion (School), Failure (Psychology), Child Psychology, Educational Psychology, Éducation des enfants, Education, Failure (psychology), Grade repetition, Education of children, Learning, Psychology of Learning, Underachievers

Description: A series of informal memos describing how typical grade-school pedagogy suppresses a child's innate desire to learn, leaving the child frustrated, confused, and fearing failure.