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The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking manifesto on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappoi
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, d
What do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want access and opportunity for all children—but all possible
First published in the mid 1960s, How Children Fail began an education reform movement that continues today. In his 1982 edition, John Holt added new insights i