How Children Learn is a nonfiction book by educator John Caldwell Holt, first published in 1967.

It is considered a prominent text in the homeschooling advocacy movement.

[2] Like that book, it became a bestseller and, according to researcher Mel Allen, brought Holt considerable fame.

The book is divided into five parts: "Games and Experiments," "Talk," "Reading," "Sports," and "Art, Maths and Other Things," each of which contains his observations of children learning.

The central thesis of his work is that children learn most effectively by their own motivation and on their own terms.