A Life Worth Living: Selected Letters of John Holt

by John Holt

Ohio State University Press · 1990

This collection of letters from John Holt, edited by Susannah Sheffer, provides an intimate portrait of the intellectual evolution of one of the 20th century's most important educational thinkers. From his early years as a school reformer to his later conviction that schools could not be reformed, Holt's letters are candid, funny, and deeply humane.