John Holt / by George Dennison -- 1. Reading and writing -- Reading and trust -- Thirty hours -- Discovering letters -- Exploring words -- Reading readiness -- Inventing the wheel -- Words in context -- Sensible phonics -- How not to learn to read -- How not to learn to write: with big bird -- Spelling -- Handwriting -- Citizen in the world of books -- 2. At home with numbers -- Counting -- Addition and subtraction -- A homemade adding machine -- Abstractions -- Multiplication -- Those easy tables -- Multiplying large number -- On "infinity" -- Bootleg math -- Family economics -- Solving problems -- Riding, hunting, and arithmetic -- 3. Young children as research scientists -- Puzzles -- Creating knowledge -- Building understanding -- Making our own connections -- Lessons in the field -- Putting meaning into the world -- 4. Loving music -- Another chance -- Starting early -- On practice -- Suzuki -- They've got all the exits blocked -- Feelings in music -- 5. What parents can do -- Grown-up voices -- Uninvited teaching -- The power of example -- Teaching as a natural science -- Whose right hand? -- Correcting mistakes -- Praise junkies -- Unwanted help -- 6. The nature of learning -- Three misleading metaphors -- Learning is making sense of things -- Living is learning -- Every waking hour.
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Shows how children begin to learn and to explore their world without being taught.