Provoking thoughts about education #7: Conditions for growth

Twenty seconds to really make you think – #7: Conditions for growth
Provocative quote number 6. This 15 second video could be a profound challenge to your scheme of work. Step back for a moment – do you meet this challenge? From John Holt’s ‘How Children Fail’. Click the image to watch the very short video of the full quotation.
Feel free to share with your team to start the conversation..
‘There’s no telling what might be done with children if, from their very first days in school, we concentrated on creating the conditions in which intelligence was most likely to grow.’
[John Holt, (1964) ‘How Children Fail’: Penguin, Page 42]
You may be interested in this training session: Inspiring Induction Practices
Provoking thoughts about education #7: Conditions for growth

Twenty seconds to really make you think – #7: Conditions for growth
Provocative quote number 6. This 15 second video could be a profound challenge to your scheme of work. Step back for a moment – do you meet this challenge? From John Holt’s ‘How Children Fail’. Click the image to watch the very short video of the full quotation.
Feel free to share with your team to start the conversation..
‘There’s no telling what might be done with children if, from their very first days in school, we concentrated on creating the conditions in which intelligence was most likely to grow.’
[John Holt, (1964) ‘How Children Fail’: Penguin, Page 42]
You may be interested in this training session: Inspiring Induction Practices
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