Let Children Be Free To Learn: Peter Gray on self-directed education and schooling alternatives
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What Are the Primary Drives for Learning?
In Free to Learn, you write that children come into the world burning to learn and genetically programmed with extraordinary capacities for learning. So what is it about our system of schooling that dulls these human drives for learning? You can't have school as we've designed it. No matter how wonderful the teacher might be, some teachers achieve a little bit in the direction,. But it's really impossible to go very far in this direction.
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