Here's a book written by John Holt in 1964, called How Children Fail
Most children in school fail. For a great many, this failure is avowed and absolute. Close to forty percent of those who begin high school, drop out before they finish. For college, the figure is one in three. Many others fail in fact if not in name. They complete their schooling only because we have agreed to push them up through the grades and out of the schools, whether they know anything or not. There are many more such children than we think. If we "raise our standards" much higher, as some would have us do, we will find out very soon just how many there are. Our classrooms will bulge with kids who can't pass the test to get into the next class. But there is a more important sense in which almost all children fail: Except for a handful, who may or may not be good students, they fail to develop more than a tiny part of the tremendous capacity for learning, understanding, and creating with which they were born and of which they made full use during, the first two or three years of their lives.
Why do they fail? ...
Read more and become enlightened - Holt's book sheds a light on how children fail (and how we fail as teachers), but it conversely shines the light brightly on how children can learn (and how we can do better as teachers) .... Read between the lines!
John Holt was an advocate for homeschooling or the "unschooling" of students as he, in my opinion, gave up on the American school system. Are we at that point in Canada? Is the system so broke that we can tell you how and why children fail and how and why they can learn, but we don't fix it? A question for another time, for sure.
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Then, in 1967 he wrote, Holt wrote another book, entitled How Children Learn.
Here is a brief sample (from audible.ca) from the book.
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