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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 35,411 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). John Holt is the 4,755th most popular writer (down from 4,297th in 2019), the 6,902nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,121st in 2019) and the 556th most popular American Writer.

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  • 35k

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  • 46.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Holt ranks 4,755 out of 5,755. Before him are Eugénio de Andrade, Abdul Muis, Eugène Guillevic, Ivan Kavaleridze, Jacqueline Susann, and Michael Lewis. After him are Sara Paretsky, Károly Kisfaludy, Hanif Kureishi, John Gardner, Urs Widmer, and Fay Weldon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, John Holt ranks 307. Before him are N. T. Rama Rao, Ladislav Fuks, Buddy DeFranco, Palden Thondup Namgyal, Giorgio Albertazzi, and Eugénio de Andrade. After him are Adãozinho, Halfdan T. Mahler, Jorge Romo, Oskar Fischer, Thea Beckman, and Walter M. Miller Jr.. Among people deceased in 1985, John Holt ranks 184. Before him are George O'Brien, Sam Spiegel, Carlos Mota Pinto, Božo Broketa, William Stevenson, and Harald Cramér. After him are Paul Peter Ewald, Miguel Otero Silva, Maya Kristalinskaya, Josef Smistik, Renato Olmi, and Inger Hagerup.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Holt ranks 6,902 out of 18,182. Before him are Metacomet (1639), Peter Pace (1945), James Hall (1811), Dan Rather (1931), Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806), and Tina Weymouth (1950). After him are Paul Williams (1940), Carl O. Sauer (1889), Harve Presnell (1933), Sara Paretsky (1947), Chris Paul (1985), and James L. Elliot (1943).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Holt ranks 556. Before him are Stephen Hunter (1946), Larry McMurtry (1936), Mark Frost (1953), Anna Katharine Green (1846), Jacqueline Susann (1918), and Michael Lewis (1960). After him are Sara Paretsky (1947), Warren Farrell (1943), Jeffrey Eugenides (1960), Kathy Acker (1947), David E. Kelley (1956), and John Varley (1947).

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