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A series based on the book "How Children Fail" by John Holt

Why Children fail?
How do we know if children have learnt?
What goes on in the class is not what teachers think
Strategies children use to cope with school
A case of children outsmarting teachers?
Teaching vs. learning
On written work
What are children afraid of?

Extracts from "My Country School Dairy" by Julia Weber Gordon

Creative Power

Extracts from “What’s wrong with the world?” by G. K. Chesterton.

Education or the mistake about the child

Extracts from “Teaching as a subversive activity” by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner

The Inquiry Method
Pursuing Relevance: where is the problem?

Extracts from "Elementary School Science And How To Teach It "(fifth ed.) by Glenn O. Blough and Julius Schwartz

The Goals in Elementary School Science