John Holt - Revision history

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	:"''No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors.''"		:"''No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors.''"

	He sees laws on ~~age~~ of ~~consent~~ as unfair and morally wrong, and firmly opposes them:		He sees laws on [[Age of Consent]] as unfair and morally wrong, and firmly opposes them:
	:“''For the state to deprive someone of liberty by putting him in prison is a most serious act. (…) It can only be justified by the most weighty cause, that the prisoner did real harm to others. But to make the act of sex, the mutual giving and receiving of pleasure, the excuse for putting someone in prison seems both mistaken and morally wrong.''”		:“''For the state to deprive someone of liberty by putting him in prison is a most serious act. (…) It can only be justified by the most weighty cause, that the prisoner did real harm to others. But to make the act of sex, the mutual giving and receiving of pleasure, the excuse for putting someone in prison seems both mistaken and morally wrong.''”

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	==Quotes==		==Quotes==
	Holt refutes the concept of childhood innocence:		Holt refutes the concept of [[Childhood Innocence\|childhood innocence]]:
	:“''Many of us (…) still believe and need to believe that children are ‘innocent’ and ‘pure’, that is, asexual, untainted by sexual thoughts, feelings or urges. There is increasing evidence that this is not true even of very young children, and it is certainly not true of children much past the age of ten or eleven.''"		:“''Many of us (…) still believe and need to believe that children are ‘innocent’ and ‘pure’, that is, asexual, untainted by sexual thoughts, feelings or urges. There is increasing evidence that this is not true even of very young children, and it is certainly not true of children much past the age of ten or eleven.''"
	:"''No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors.''"		:"''No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors.''"

Tyciol at 14:45, 7 April 2010

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	[[Image:JohnHolt.jpg\|frame\|John Caldwell Holt]]The educator and ~~Home~~-schooling champion, '''John Caldwell Holt''' (April 14, 1923 - September 14, 1985) is of interest because of the radical youth rights literature that he published. (See his book ''Escape from ~~Childhood~~ – The Needs and Rights of Children''.)		[[Image:JohnHolt.jpg\|frame\|John Caldwell Holt]]The educator and home-schooling champion, '''John Caldwell Holt''' (April 14, 1923 - September 14, 1985) is of interest because of the radical [[youth rights]] literature that he published. (See his book ''Escape from [[Child]]hood – The Needs and Rights of Children''.)

	Holt advocated that ~~“all~~ people, including young people, should have the right to control their own private sex lives and ~~acts”~~. He considers that ~~“it~~ is not the proper business of the state or government to pry into such ~~matters”~~. While defending the thesis that children should be given the same rights and citizenship as ~~adults~~, he observes that until this happens, and unless children are legally emancipated, parents should at least be able to forbid their children to have sex at (their) home.		Holt advocated that “''all people, including [[young people]], should have the right to control their own private sex lives and acts''”. He considers that “''it is not the proper business of the state or government to pry into such matters''”. While defending the thesis that children should be given the same rights and citizenship as [[adult]]s, he observes that until this happens, and unless children are legally emancipated, parents should at least be able to forbid their children to have sex at (their) home.

	==Quotes==		==Quotes==

	Holt refutes the concept of childhood innocence:		Holt refutes the concept of childhood innocence:
			:“''Many of us (…) still believe and need to believe that children are ‘innocent’ and ‘pure’, that is, asexual, untainted by sexual thoughts, feelings or urges. There is increasing evidence that this is not true even of very young children, and it is certainly not true of children much past the age of ten or eleven.''"
	:~~“Many~~ of us (…) still believe and need to believe that children are ‘innocent’ and ‘pure’, that is, asexual, untainted by sexual thoughts, feelings or urges. There is increasing evidence that this is not true even of very young children, and it is certainly not true of children much past the age of ten or eleven."		:"''No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors.''"

	:"No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors."

	He sees laws on age of consent as unfair and morally wrong, and firmly opposes them:		He sees laws on age of consent as unfair and morally wrong, and firmly opposes them:
			:“''For the state to deprive someone of liberty by putting him in prison is a most serious act. (…) It can only be justified by the most weighty cause, that the prisoner did real harm to others. But to make the act of sex, the mutual giving and receiving of pleasure, the excuse for putting someone in prison seems both mistaken and morally wrong.''”
	:~~“For~~ the state to deprive someone of liberty by putting him in prison is a most serious act. (…) It can only be justified by the most weighty cause, that the prisoner did real harm to others. But to make the act of sex, the mutual giving and receiving of pleasure, the excuse for putting someone in prison seems both mistaken and morally ~~wrong”~~.

	==External links==		==External links==

	*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Caldwell_Holt Wikipedia Article]		*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Caldwell_Holt Wikipedia Article]

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StephenJames at 01:29, 12 September 2009

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	[[Image:JohnHolt.jpg\|frame\|John Caldwell Holt]]The educator and Home-schooling champion, '''John Caldwell Holt''' (April 14, 1923 - September 14, 1985) is of interest because of the radical youth rights literature that he published (~~see~~ his book "Escape from Childhood – The Needs and Rights of Children").		[[Image:JohnHolt.jpg\|frame\|John Caldwell Holt]]The educator and Home-schooling champion, '''John Caldwell Holt''' (April 14, 1923 - September 14, 1985) is of interest because of the radical youth rights literature that he published. (See his book ''Escape from Childhood – The Needs and Rights of Children''.)

	Holt advocated that “all people, including young people, should have the right to control their own private sex lives and acts”. He considers that “it is not the proper business of the state or government to pry into such matters”. While defending that children should be given the same rights and citizenship of adults, he observes that until this happens and unless children are legally emancipated, parents should at least be able to forbid their children to have sex at (their) home.		Holt advocated that “all people, including young people, should have the right to control their own private sex lives and acts”. He considers that “it is not the proper business of the state or government to pry into such matters”. While defending the thesis that children should be given the same rights and citizenship as adults, he observes that until this happens, and unless children are legally emancipated, parents should at least be able to forbid their children to have sex at (their) home.

	==Quotes==		==Quotes==

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	[[Image:JohnHolt.jpg\|frame\|John Caldwell Holt]]The educator and Home-schooling champion, '''John Caldwell Holt''' (April 14, 1923 - September 14, 1985) is of interest because of the radical youth rights literature that he published (see his book "Escape from Childhood – The Needs and Rights of Children").		[[Image:JohnHolt.jpg\|frame\|John Caldwell Holt]]The educator and Home-schooling champion, '''John Caldwell Holt''' (April 14, 1923 - September 14, 1985) is of interest because of the radical youth rights literature that he published (see his book "Escape from Childhood – The Needs and Rights of Children").

	Holt advocated ~~that~~ that “all people, including young people, should have the right to control their own private sex lives and acts”. He considers that “it is not the proper business of the state or government to pry into such matters”. While defending that children should be given the same rights and citizenship of adults, he observes that until this happens and unless children are legally emancipated, parents should at least be able to forbid their children to have sex at (their) home.		Holt advocated that “all people, including young people, should have the right to control their own private sex lives and acts”. He considers that “it is not the proper business of the state or government to pry into such matters”. While defending that children should be given the same rights and citizenship of adults, he observes that until this happens and unless children are legally emancipated, parents should at least be able to forbid their children to have sex at (their) home.

	==Quotes==		==Quotes==

Stephen James at 19:18, 25 May 2009

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	[[Image:JohnHolt.jpg\|frame\|John Caldwell Holt]]The educator and Home-schooling champion, '''John Caldwell Holt''' (April 14, 1923 - September 14, 1985) is of interest because of the radical youth rights literature that he published (see his book "Escape from Childhood – The Needs and Rights of Children).		[[Image:JohnHolt.jpg\|frame\|John Caldwell Holt]]The educator and Home-schooling champion, '''John Caldwell Holt''' (April 14, 1923 - September 14, 1985) is of interest because of the radical youth rights literature that he published (see his book "Escape from Childhood – The Needs and Rights of Children").

	Holt advocated that that “all people, including young people, should have the right to control their own private sex lives and acts”. He considers that “it is not the proper business of the state or government to pry into such matters”. While defending that children should be given the same rights and citizenship of adults, he observes that until this happens and unless children are legally emancipated, parents should at least be able to forbid their children to have sex at (their) home.		Holt advocated that that “all people, including young people, should have the right to control their own private sex lives and acts”. He considers that “it is not the proper business of the state or government to pry into such matters”. While defending that children should be given the same rights and citizenship of adults, he observes that until this happens and unless children are legally emancipated, parents should at least be able to forbid their children to have sex at (their) home.

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	*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Caldwell_Holt Wikipedia Article]		*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Caldwell_Holt Wikipedia Article]

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	The educator and Home-schooling champion, '''John Caldwell Holt''' (April 14, 1923 - September 14, 1985) is of interest because of the radical youth rights literature that he published (see his book "Escape from Childhood – The Needs and Rights of Children).		[[Image:JohnHolt.jpg\|frame\|John Caldwell Holt]]The educator and Home-schooling champion, '''John Caldwell Holt''' (April 14, 1923 - September 14, 1985) is of interest because of the radical youth rights literature that he published (see his book "Escape from Childhood – The Needs and Rights of Children).

	Holt advocated that that “all people, including young people, should have the right to control their own private sex lives and acts”. He considers that “it is not the proper business of the state or government to pry into such matters”. While defending that children should be given the same rights and citizenship of adults, he observes that until this happens and unless children are legally emancipated, parents should at least be able to forbid their children to have sex at (their) home.		Holt advocated that that “all people, including young people, should have the right to control their own private sex lives and acts”. He considers that “it is not the proper business of the state or government to pry into such matters”. While defending that children should be given the same rights and citizenship of adults, he observes that until this happens and unless children are legally emancipated, parents should at least be able to forbid their children to have sex at (their) home.

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	Holt refutes the concept of childhood innocence:		Holt refutes the concept of childhood innocence:

	“Many of us (…) still believe and need to believe that children are ‘innocent’ and ‘pure’, that is, asexual, untainted by sexual thoughts, feelings or urges. There is increasing evidence that this is not true even of very young children, and it is certainly not true of children much past the age of ten or eleven."		:“Many of us (…) still believe and need to believe that children are ‘innocent’ and ‘pure’, that is, asexual, untainted by sexual thoughts, feelings or urges. There is increasing evidence that this is not true even of very young children, and it is certainly not true of children much past the age of ten or eleven."

	"No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors."		:"No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors."

	He sees laws on age of consent as unfair and morally wrong, and firmly opposes them:		He sees laws on age of consent as unfair and morally wrong, and firmly opposes them:

	“For the state to deprive someone of liberty by putting him in prison is a most serious act. (…) It can only be justified by the most weighty cause, that the prisoner did real harm to others. But to make the act of sex, the mutual giving and receiving of pleasure, the excuse for putting someone in prison seems both mistaken and morally wrong”.		:“For the state to deprive someone of liberty by putting him in prison is a most serious act. (…) It can only be justified by the most weighty cause, that the prisoner did real harm to others. But to make the act of sex, the mutual giving and receiving of pleasure, the excuse for putting someone in prison seems both mistaken and morally wrong”.

	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Caldwell_Holt Wikipedia Article]		==External links==

			*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Caldwell_Holt Wikipedia Article]

	[[Category:People]][[Category:Research]][[Category:Research: Broader Perspectives]][[Category:People: American]][[Category:People: Sympathetic Activists]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:People: Academics]][[Category:People: Critical Analysts]]		[[Category:People]][[Category:Research]][[Category:Research: Broader Perspectives]][[Category:People: American]][[Category:People: Sympathetic Activists]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:People: Academics]][[Category:People: Critical Analysts]]

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	Holt advocated that that “all people, including young people, should have the right to control their own private sex lives and acts”. He considers that “it is not the proper business of the state or government to pry into such matters”. While defending that children should be given the same rights and citizenship of adults, he observes that until this happens and unless children are legally emancipated, parents should at least be able to forbid their children to have sex at (their) home.		Holt advocated that that “all people, including young people, should have the right to control their own private sex lives and acts”. He considers that “it is not the proper business of the state or government to pry into such matters”. While defending that children should be given the same rights and citizenship of adults, he observes that until this happens and unless children are legally emancipated, parents should at least be able to forbid their children to have sex at (their) home.

	~~Holt refutes the concept of child innocence:~~		==Quotes==

	“Many of us (…) still believe and need to believe that children are ‘innocent’ and ‘pure’, that is, asexual, untainted by sexual thoughts, feelings or urges. There is increasing evidence that this is not true even of very young children, and it is certainly not true of children much past the age of ten or ~~eleven”~~.		Holt refutes the concept of childhood innocence:

			“Many of us (…) still believe and need to believe that children are ‘innocent’ and ‘pure’, that is, asexual, untainted by sexual thoughts, feelings or urges. There is increasing evidence that this is not true even of very young children, and it is certainly not true of children much past the age of ten or eleven."

			"No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors."

	He sees laws on age of consent as unfair and morally wrong, and firmly opposes them:		He sees laws on age of consent as unfair and morally wrong, and firmly opposes them: