Escape From Childhood: The Needs and Rights of Children

Holt, John Caldwell

ISBN 10: 0985400293 / ISBN 13: 9780985400293

Published by HoltGWS LLC, 2013

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Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Escape From Childhood: The Needs and Rights of Children
• Publisher: HoltGWS LLC
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0985400293
• ISBN 13: 9780985400293
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

This is a reprint of John Holt's controversial book about the rights of children and how adults and children can live and learn together more enjoyably and transparently by rethinking their relationships. Under the guise of care and protection, children are kept in the walled garden of childhood, outside the world of human experience, for longer periods than ever before in human history. But for many children and parents, the walled garden of childhood is more like a prison, where authorities compel and limit personal actions. What if children the right to do, in general, what any adult may legally do? The reader who dares to confront such a question will discover new family relationships, not based on parental control, but on the joy of shared experience and responsibilities.

About the Author

John Holt (1923-1985), writer, educator, lecturer, and amateur musician, wrote ten books, including How Children Fail, How Children Learn, Never Too Late, Learning All the Time, and Teach Your Own. His work has been translated into over fourteen languages. How Children Fail, which the New York Review of Books rated as "in a class with Piaget," has sold over a million copies in its many editions. How Children Learn has sold over 750,000 copies and both of these books, written in the 1960s, have remained in print since. John Holt, for many years a leading figure in school reform, became increasingly interested in how children learn outside of school-what Holt called "unschooling." The magazine he created, Growing Without Schooling (published from 1977 to 2001), helped found the modern homeschooling movement, which now has over two million children learning outside of school. Holt's work is presented and continued at www.JohnHoltGWS.com.