Learning all the time

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.