"No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors."
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John Holt
John Caldwell Holt (April 14, 1923 – September 14, 1985) was an American author and educator, a proponent of homeschooling and, specifically, the unschooling approach, and a pioneer in youth rights theory.
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