
Let Children Be Free To Learn: Peter Gray on self-directed education and schooling alternatives
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The Real Cause of Depression Is Social Media
The real cause is how we adults are constraining children's lives in school and out of school. People has become a toxic place for children, he says. The research can show it but it never gets picked up in the popular press. In 2014, the American Psychological Society conducted a survey of stress in America. We found that high school age kids are the most stressed out people in America. When asked what's stressing them, something like 83% of them said school. They didn't say social media. That was not picked up. Nobody published that. It's a kind of bias that we have. We put a halo around schooling. Children develop best when they're carefully guided and
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