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"[Homeschoolers] can afford to be patient, to wait a long time for results; they are in complete control of their work, and can change their methods as they wish; they can observe closely; they are free from all the routine distractions of large schools; and they are interested only in results rather than excuses. From these people and their work, all serious schools and teachers, many of them now severely limited and handicapped by the conditions under which they have to work, stand to learn a great deal. First, let it be clear what they will not learn. They will not learn that this or that is the best way to teach reading, or addition, or multiplication, etc.; or that certain books are the best books for children; or that such-and-such is the best curriculum for this or that grade; or that you should always teach this particular subject in this particular order. Homeschoolers will not teach the schools what they so yearn to know, the one best way to do anything. What they will teach is that there is no one best way, and that it is a waste of time and energy to look for it; that children (like adults) learn in a great many different ways; that each child learns best in the ways that most interest, excite, and satisfy him or her; and that the business of school should be to offer learners the widest possible range of choices, both in what to learn and ways to learn it."
John Holt, (1991), Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education. NY: Bantam/Doubleday/ Dell. Pp. 330-331
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