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John Holt

1923 - 1985

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John Caldwell Holt (April 14, 1923 – September 14, 1985) was an American author and educator, a proponent of homeschooling (specifically the unschooling approach), and a pioneer in youth rights theory. After a six-year stint teaching elementary school in the 1950s, Holt wrote the book How Children Fail (1964), which cataloged the problems he saw with the American school system. He followed it up with How Children Learn (1967). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Holt has received more than 36,730 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). John Holt is the 5,687th most popular writer (down from 4,739th in 2019), the 8,689th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,888th in 2019) and the 672nd most popular American Writer.

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  • 45.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Holt ranks 5,687 out of 7,302. Before him are Gwendolyn Brooks, Herberto Hélder, Cynthia McLeod, Lew Rockwell, Walter Moers, and Donald Richie. After him are Charles Allston Collins, Willi Apel, Lualhati Bautista, Erwin Strittmatter, Edward Wilmot Blyden, and Earl Derr Biggers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, John Holt ranks 391. Before him are Rosy Varte, Willem Slijkhuis, Hans Wetterström, Adolphe Hug, Fernando Campos, and Jorge Daponte. After him are Cyril M. Kornbluth, Walter Jens, Wim van der Voort, Lee Yuan-tsu, James E. Gunn, and Akkineni Nageswara Rao. Among people deceased in 1985, John Holt ranks 229. Before him are Fritz Keller, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, Richard Haydn, Myrtle Cook, Milton H. Greene, and Lucien Michard. After him are Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Aleksandra Khokhlova, Jee Yong-ju, Lloyd Nolan, Dinara Asanova, and Horatio Fitch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Holt ranks 8,689 out of 20,380. Before him are Anne Dudek (1975), Donald Richie (1924), Owen Roizman (1936), Chesty Puller (1898), DeLisle Stewart (1870), and Stephen F. Cohen (1938). After him are Penny Pritzker (1959), Proof (1973), Zach Grenier (1954), Rian Johnson (1973), Joe Jonas (1989), and Robert Atkins (1930).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Holt ranks 672. Before him are Edmund White (1940), Alison Lurie (1926), Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917), Lew Rockwell (1944), and Donald Richie (1924). After him are Earl Derr Biggers (1884), Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923), Dee Brown (1908), Henry Ward Beecher (1813), Robert Christgau (1942), and James E. Gunn (1923).

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