Rather than give an overarching theory of how children learn, John Holt, the father of the modern home school movement, uses anecdotal observations that question assumptions about how children acquire knowledge and learning skills.

Holt rejects the idea that children are "monsters of evil" who must be beaten into submission or computers whom "we can program into geniuses." Neither are they the passive receptacles of knowledge that can only learn in a schoolroom. Instead, he calls upon parents and educators to "trust children."

A.S. Neill is widely considered to be one of the great educators of our time. UNESCO list him as one of the 100 most influential educational thinkers and he was also listed as one of the twelve greatest educators of the last millennium by the “Times Educational Supplement” in December 1999.
His writings, together with other radical thinkers of the period such as Bertrand Russell, confronted the values of the establishment for many years.

Many teachers find themselves in need from time to time to include clipcards as visual aids in their teaching or as a support in evaluation to back up the sentences or paragraphs in the exams.Well, here is the image collection used in The Express Picture Dictionary CD ROM for those who want to make use of them.

Teacher education has been subject to both scathing criticism and innumerable efforts designed to reform it or to save it from being dismantled.