Instead of Education

Instead of Education : Ways to Help People Do Things Better, Second Edition

John Holt is credited with launching today's huge and still growing homeschooling movement. This book is his most direct and radical challenge to the educational status quo and a clarion to call parents to save their children from schools of all kinds. Holt advocates self-directed learning and a creative life.

  • Format: Paperback | 256 pages
  • Dimensions: 215 x 140 x 18.8mm | 304g
  • Publication date: 01 Jun 2004
  • Publisher: Sentient Publications
  • Publication City/Country: Boulder, Colorado, United States
  • Language: English
  • Edition Statement: Sentient Pubn
  • ISBN10: 1591810094
  • ISBN13: 9781591810094
  • Bestsellers rank: 89,076

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