Every infant is "smart," full of curiosity, and loves learning. But after going to school, children often lose interest in learning and long to escape from school. Why? Perhaps this shows that the teaching methods used by our schools cause our children lose their extraordinary ability to learn. John Holt is the father of contemporary educational reform in the United States. Through his memos, he showed us how schools cause children who once loved learning to run away from it and gradually "become stupid," thus leading to their failure.

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