"Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners."

- John Holt

"What is essential is to realize that children learn independently, not in bunches; that they learn out of interest and curiosity, not to please or appease the adults in power; and that they ought to be in control of their own learning, deciding for themselves what they want to learn and how they want to learn it."

- John Holt

"We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way."

- John Holt

"If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: Be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued."

- John Holt

"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