Peter Gray (10)
Author of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
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Gray has the optimistic view that in the future, we will view schools modelled after Sudbury Valley School as the norm, and look back on this era of forced schooling and distrustful parenting as an unpleasant historical moment.
Children are learning machines. But this book is not a manual on the operation for that machine. Rather, it is more of an investigation into the current tragedy of not using the machine to its fullest potential, causing our culture to be poorer because of this.
If you're thinking implementing un-schooling for your kids, this book is not a how to, but more of a why that you might use to convince the traditionalists in your social circle.… (more)