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“The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.
— John Holt
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John Holt, in 'Growing Without Schooling' magazine #40.
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