How Children Learn by Holt, John Caldwell

Random House Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Random House Publishing Group. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Delta, 1972-07-15. Paperback. Very Good. 7x5x0. The pages of this book are clean and unmarked. There is some light tanning/foxing to the outer edges of the pages due to age.

Delta, July 1972. Trade Paperback. Used - Good.

1983. Soft. GOOD. BB49 1989 SC. Revised edition. Light soiling to wraps & textblock. Clean text.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dell Publishing, 1989. Trade Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, learning is as natural as breathing. He looks at how we learn to talk, to read, to count, and to reason, and how we can nurture and encourage these natural abilities in children. "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 "effective, gentle voice of reason" Holt didn't have children of his own, and his first opinions of children and learning came from being a schoolteacher in an elite private school, where he taught math to 5th graders. He was exposed to younger children and babies who were friends and relatives, and began forming… Read More