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Play Makes Us Human: Hunter-Gatherers' Playful Parenting

Peter Gray, Ph.D. · Have you ever noticed how we, as a society, use agricultural metaphors to talk about parenting and education? We speak of raising children, just as we speak of raising tomatoes or...

Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education

Peter Gray, Ph.D. · Sometimes I find, no matter how uncomfortable it makes me and others feel, I have to speak the truth. We can use all the euphemisms we want, but the literal truth is that schools, as...

Why Children Protest Going to School

Peter Gray · Most children in our society protest going to school. Am I telling you something new?

School Is a Prison - And Damaging Our Kids

Peter Gray · Longer school years aren't the answer. The problem is school itself. Compulsory teach-and-test simply doesn't work.

How Hunter-Gatherers Maintained Their Egalitarian Ways: Three Complementary Theories

Peter Gray · As regular readers of this blog know, I have in previous posts commented on hunter-gatherers' playfulness; their playful religious practices; their

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