Peter Gray, “Free to Learn” (Basic Books, 2013)
New Books in Psychology
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The Lord of the Fly Is a Work of Fiction
"The Lord of the Fly is not a good analogy or a good way to think about what happens when children are free," he says. The kind of school that I advocate and which exists in the form of the Sudbury Valley School is not an anarchy, he adds. "It's a school that has a developed culture with formal procedures just as our larger democratic government has formal procedures for making laws."
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