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And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit. — Julia Quinn

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. — John Holt

Fatuous words I don't trust you I trust silence
More than beauty more than anything
A festival of understanding — Frantisek Halas

To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid. — John Holt

As our case is new, we must think and act anew. — Abraham Lincoln

The point to remember, of course, when considering the universe at large is that we don't actually know what is in our own solar system. Now, — Bill Bryson

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God. — John Piper

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. — John Steinbeck

Children are not only extremely good at learning; they are much better at it than we are. — John Holt

I hate how we never get out chance to see how things could've turned out. I hate how I know I'm not over you yet I pretend to be. — Drake

Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen. — John Holt

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have. — John Holt

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.' — Tom Perrotta

We own the things that claim that we are theirs. — Jay Mark D. Saga-ad

To trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves ... and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted.
— John Holt

he said: (1) accept yourself, (2) forget yourself, (3) find something to do and to care about that is more important to you than you are. — John Holt

The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher. — John Holt

Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places. — John Holt

we can trust children to find out about the world, and that when trusted, they do find out. — John Holt

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us. — G.I. Gurdjieff

We learn to do something by doing it.
There is no other way. — John Holt

Fear, boredom, and resistance
they all go to make
what we call stupid children. — John Holt

Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt. — Ayn Rand

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may perish through a small matter: thus he goes willingly over the bridge. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. — John Holt

The danger of letting people ask, "Is this the best way to do this job?" is that after a while they may ask, "Is this job worth doing? — John Holt

Decades of sorrow and loss, he had suffered. And all of them caused by this woman crouching in front of him with his blood on her lips. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

There are very severe penalties for being a bad student but no penalties at all for being a bad teacher." The — John Holt