No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. - John Holt

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John Holt: "No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back."

John Holt's Quotations

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Amount	Attention	Back	Bring
Child	Exhortation	Interest	Materials
Problems	Shout	Situations	Slip
Them	Threats

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