School Is Bad For Children John Holton Summary

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The author , John Holton states that children are smart, more curious , less afraid of what they do not know before they start attending school. and they are smart than they will ever be because they have solved the mystery of language on they own without the help of a teacher.
As children starts attending school all the excitement of finding more about the world around them and learning more about the people they want to become is done away with because the current system does not embraces the uniqueness of each individual or their need to learn about what they are curious about.

b. In John Holton's essay " School Is Bad For Children " He is somehow biased in using emotional , logical , and ethical appeals but he is still well established a claim that our current school system is bad for children.

• Emotional / fair emotional appeal
• He states that children are competent but '' being wrong , uncertain, and confused is a crime"(Holton) .
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when I moved to the US, I was coming from a French school system to an American school system, they were a lot things that I was unfamiliar with and wanted to know more but when I would ask questions and the response I received were not what I was expecting , as a student you would think that the teachers would be interest in helping you but most of the time they would say something like " let's talk about that later !" and that later for the most part never came and I was in state where I would feel embarrassed and fear for being the weird one for asking question about the things that were unknown to me , eventually school was no longer the welcoming place i hoped it to be , I wasn't there because I wanted it , was there because i was forced to do

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