Twitter Book Club: John Holt (1964) How Children Learn - Chapter 7

Fantasy

"We are seeing something new in human history, a generation or two of children who have most of their daydreams made for them." Holtless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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RT @anderscj: "We are seeing something new in human history, a generation of children who have most of their daydreams made 4 them." Holtless than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhoneJerrid Kruse
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"When we think about it a bit, what these children (and many others like them) do in their play is remarkable. They... http://tl.gd/8s0tbdless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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Love this quote:

"When we think about it a bit, what these children (and many others like them) do in their play is remarkable. They are at one and the same time writing a play and directing and producing it. This would be hard enough for many of us adults to do, even working all by ourselves, but these two children are working as partners. Whatever one of them introduces into the play the other must deal with." Holt

"We are fed by our fantasies as much as by our food. They open the world to us." John Holtless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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"as we move farther and farther into the world, we take more and more of it into ourselves. As children enter the w... http://tl.gd/8s17hrless than a minute ago via Twittelatoranderscj
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