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Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 12, 2025| 2 Comments »

When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is real.  As they become “producers ” they fall away from exploration and start fishing for the right answers with little thought.  They believe they must always be right, so they quickly forget mistakes and how these mistakes were made.  They believe that the only good response from the teacher is “yes,” and that a “no” is defeat.
     ―     John C. Holt,
From his book:  “How Children Fail“
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Click here (12 December) to see the posts of prior years.  I started this blog in late 2009.  Daily posting began in late January 2011.  Not all of the days in the early years (2009-2010) will have posts.

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