How children fail

How children fail

By John Caldwell Holt

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

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