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Free to Learn
by Peter Gray
Children are designed to learn through play. School keeps interrupting.
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Gray is a developmental psychologist who argues that the rise in childhood anxiety, depression, and helplessness is directly linked to the decline in children's free play — and that the solution is not better schools but radically less school. He draws on evolutionary psychology, anthropology, and the research on democratic schools like Sudbury Valley to make the case that children are biologically designed to educate themselves through play, exploration, and self-directed activity — and that our educational system systematically undermines that design. The most rigorous scientific case for unschooling ever written.
