Why do we assume the worst of children?
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28 Aug Why do we assume the worst of children?

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I’m going to start posting some quotes here from John Holt’s How Children Fail, which is a classic education text about student learning (that most educators have never read?)…

The bad things we assume about other people tend to become true, become “self-fulfilling prophecies.” Many people seem to think that the way to take care of children is to ask in any situation what is the most stupid and dangerous thing the children could possibly do, and then act as if they were sure to do it. (p. 81)

I’m going to start posting some quotes here from John Holt’s How Children Fail, which is a classic education text about student learning (that most educators have never read?)… The bad things we assume about other people tend to become true, become “self-fulfilling prophecies.” Many people seem to think that the way to take careLearning and Teaching, Quotes, schooling, teaching, trustRead More

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