WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Holt, John – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Holt, John -- How Children Learn, “Art, Math, and Other Things” (1967) https://wist.info/holt-john/18626/ https://wist.info/holt-john/18626/#respond Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:39:25 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=18626 The test of intelligence [is] not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do. Similarly, any situation, any activity, that puts before us real problems, that we have to solve for ourselves, problems for which there are no answers in any book, sharpens our intelligence.


John Holt (1923–1985) American author and educator
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