WGBH post – Matt Purdy
“Kids are hard-wired to learn, and before they reach kindergarten, they’ve figured out a lot: how to walk, how to eat, even how to speak a language. They learn to do these things with no formal lessons; just observation, practice, and support from others…Psychologist Peter Gray, author of the book “Free to Learn”…has a radical solution to the problem: just let kids play…“We need more people who know how to solve the problems of life. These are not things that can be taught in school… These are things you have to learn through experience. Where do children get that experience? They get it in play, where there’s no adult solving their problems for them.””(more)