: Children learn to read a teacher's body language or facial expressions for clues to the "right" answer.
: Students may take wild guesses or mumble responses to increase their chances of appearing correct without actually knowing the material. Holt's Educational Philosophy John Holt - How Children Fail
Holt observed that instead of trying to understand material, students develop "strategies" to dodge adult demands and "fish" for right answers: : Children learn to read a teacher's body
: The curriculum is often trivial, dull, and disconnected from a child's real interests, making narrow demands on their intelligence. making narrow demands on their intelligence.