John Holt Quotes

But Of Course, The Most Important Trick In Beating The S-chool Game Is To Know That It Is A Game, As Abstract, Unreal, And Useless As Chess, And That Beating It Is A Trick. The Game Is Important Only Because (as With Chess) There Are Rewards For Playing It Well, And (unlike Chess) Penalties For Playing It Badly. This Is Something That Almost All Successful Students Know, Almost By Instinct. I Sensed It At Ten, And Knew It Thoroughly And Consciously By The Time I Was Thirteen.

John Holt Quotes: But Of Course, The Most Important Trick In Beating The S-chool Game Is To Know That It Is A Game,

John Holt Quotes: But Of Course, The Most Important Trick In Beating The S-chool Game Is To Know That It Is A Game,

John Holt Quotes: But Of Course, The Most Important Trick In Beating The S-chool Game Is To Know That It Is A Game,

John Holt Quotes: But Of Course, The Most Important Trick In Beating The S-chool Game Is To Know That It Is A Game,

John Holt Quotes: But Of Course, The Most Important Trick In Beating The S-chool Game Is To Know That It Is A Game,

John Holt Quotes: But Of Course, The Most Important Trick In Beating The S-chool Game Is To Know That It Is A Game,

John Holt Quotes: But Of Course, The Most Important Trick In Beating The S-chool Game Is To Know That It Is A Game,

John Holt Quotes: But Of Course, The Most Important Trick In Beating The S-chool Game Is To Know That It Is A Game,

John Holt Quotes: But Of Course, The Most Important Trick In Beating The S-chool Game Is To Know That It Is A Game,

John Holt Quotes: But Of Course, The Most Important Trick In Beating The S-chool Game Is To Know That It Is A Game,

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