Peter Gray on Unschooling and Teaching Children Without Hierarchies

[Unschooling]

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

https://open.spotify.com/episode/03gKU4qcJVVQLtP3MN7rJ6?si=R0BTu4nMR4G-KqvaI1VYMw&nd=1

All Effort to Change Schooling is a Huge Waste of Time

The government has a Monopoly on schooling, any choice is merely an Illusion. Schools Are The Problem, NOT The Solution! “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Buckminster Fuller “The secret of CHANGE is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” ~ Socrates (470 - 399 BC) “If nothing changes, nothing changes. If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’re…

Children Educate Themselves

“Most remarkably, unlike any other people that have been studied, hunter-gatherers appear to lack hierarchy in social organization. They have no chief or big man, no leaders or followers…” ~ Peter Gray

Children’s & Teens’ Suicides Related to the School Calendar

Psychiatric emergencies and youth suicides rise sharply with the school year. "School is clearly bad for children’s mental health. The tragedy is that we continue to make school ever more stressful, even though research shows that none of this is necessary. Young people learn far more, far better, with much less stress (and at less public expense) when they are allowed to learn in their own natural ways, as I have pointed out in many of my previous posts and in my book, Free to Learn."