by George McGovern
During the 1960s and 1970s I developed a friend-
ship with the late John Holt based in considerable
part on our mutual interest in the education of
children. Before entering politics I was a college
history teacher， but my interest in education began
long before my teaching days.
I have always thought that I was the beneficiary
of excellent teachers in the public schools of Mitch-
ell， South Dakota. These teachers--many of them
unmarried women whose lives centered on their
students and the classroom--were the best. They
watched and worried and labored with their stu-
dents. They were stimulating， imaginative human
beings in love with the education and development
of the young.
I sensed that John Holt was such a human being--
fascinated with young minds and the necessity of
opening and challenging those minds to the won-
derful world around us. He was convinced that
children were \"failing\" because society--the family，
the school， the community--was failing to encour-
age， to stimulate， to instruct young minds in an
intelligent manner.
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