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Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling

Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling
By John Holt, Pat Farenga

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Today more than one and a half million children are being taught at home by their own parents. In this expanded edition of the book that helped launch the whole movement, Pat Farenga has distilled John Holt's timeless understanding of the ways children come to understand the world and added up-to-the-moment practical advice. Rather than proposing that parents turn their homes into miniature schools, Holt and Farenga demonstrate how ordinary parents can help children grow as social, active learners. Chapters on living with children, "serious play," children and work, and learning difficulties will be of interest to all parents, whether home schooling or not, as well as to teachers. This new edition is supplemented with financial and legal advice as well as a guide to cooperating with schools and facing the common objections to home schooling.Teach Your Own not only has all the vital information necessary to be the bible for parents teaching their own children, it also conveys John Holt's wise and passionate belief in every child's ability to learn from the world that has made his wonderful books into enduring classics.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #108591 in Books
  • Published on: 2003-04
  • Released on: 2003-04-15
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 352 pages

Editorial Reviews

Austin Family July, 2003
"For many parents this book is an indispensable handbook for educating their children at home."

Home Schooling Today December 2003
"[An] enduring homeschooling classic...A landmark work...This book is indispensable."

Boston Globe Magazine 03/21/04
"An expansion and revision of the homeschoolers' bible, written by the late, outspoken Massachusetts education reformer John Holt."

Customer Reviews

CAUTION - WILL CHANGE YOUR FAMILY'S LIFE5
This single book completely transformed our family's plan for educating our child. After 3 years of perfectly normal, traditional (private and public) schooling, the light bulb went off and we are now embarking on the incredible journey of homeschooling. John Holt speaks such truth, and reminds us that all human beings are born naturally curious, wanting and able to learn. Imagine the potential of our world if each child spent 11,000 hours out in the real world, hungrily soaking up all that life has to offer, instead of sitting all day, being fed information to regurgitate with no apparent and immediate relation to their needs, their interests or their lives. Holt reminds us that "school" is a relatively new invention, and that earlier generations who could not only write exquisitely, invent, create, build and lead, were all schooled at home. Holt also helps every parent who has ever said "I could never homeschool my children" rethink the entire idea of being "the teacher". Rather, every parent can assume the role of "facilitator"... simply providing access, resources and examples... and watching the miracle of natural human development take off on its own. Take the journey. You will never look back.

crapy amazon service5
How can I review this book if it's been over a month and I haven't even received it yet?!!!

The master of modern homeschooling5
Don't read my review. Buy the book and read it instead. If you only ever puchase one book on home education, then let it be this one. John Holt is simply the best.