John Holt Bibliography

You can purchase most of these books from FUN-Books.

How Children Fail. Pitman 1964, revised edition Delacorte 1982, Perseus, 1995.

How Children Learn. Pitman 1967, revised edition Delacorte 1983, Perseus, 1995.

The Underachieving School. Pitman,1969.

What Do I Do Monday? Dutton, 1970, Heinemann, 1995.

Freedom and Beyond. Dutton, 1972, Heinemann, 1995.

Escape from Childhood: The Needs and Rights of Children. Dutton, 1974, Holt Associates 1981.

Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better. Dutton, 1976, Sentient, 2003.

Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story.. Delacorte. 1978, Perseus, 1991.

Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education. Delacorte, 1981, revised and updated by Patrick Farenga as Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling, Perseus 2003

Learning All the Time: How small children begin to read. write, count, and investigate the world, without begin taught. Addison-Wesley 1989. Perseus, 1990.

Other writing by John Holt

A Life Worth Living: Selected Letters of John Holt. Sheffer, Susannah, ed. Ohio State University Press, 1990.

Growing Without Schooling, Vol. 1. A Record of a Grassroots Movement. Holt Associates, 1999.

Sharing Treasures: Book Reviews by John Holt Edited by Jane P. Holcomb and Pat Farenga. Holt Associates, 1991.

Recent books that discuss John Holt and his work

FORTHCOMING: John Holt and the Radical Tradition, Roland Meighan (Continuum Publishing, London, 2007)

Free Schools, Free People: Education and Democracy After the 1960s. Ron Miller. State University of New York Press, 2002.

Minding American Education: Reclaiming the Tradition of Active Learning. Martin Bickman. Teachers College Press, 2003.