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Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology at Boston College. He has conducted and published research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational psychology; published articles on innovative teaching methods and alternative approaches to education; and is author of Psychology (Worth Publishers), an introductory college textbook now in its 6th edition. He did his undergraduate study at Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biological sciences at Rockefeller University. His current research and writing focuses primarily on children’s natural ways of learning and the life-long value of play. His own play includes not only his research and writing, but also long distance bicycling, kayaking, back-woods skiing, and vegetable gardening.
Peter’s blog: http://www.fdrurl.com/gray
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Excellent interview! The Sudbury Schools seem to have been influenced by A.S. Neill’s Summerhill School in Suffolk, England.
A.S. Neill’s Summerhill School
Also, check out this great book: Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood
Absolutely Spot On!!! I’ve been saying this for years. My mother and father were both teachers and they would agree with this mans point of view. I have just left my 5 year old and 9 year old back after a wonderful summer holiday break to a Catholic Primary school in N.Ireland. They are ( in my humble opinion broken like horses ), and my 5 year old in particular does not want to adapt to the rules and regulations. I actually removed him from the same school Nursery after he told me that the teacher dragged him across the room for not staying in the same room as the rest of the kids!! This she denied to my face until another few kids spoke up and told the exact same story. I let the teacher speak to my son on the phone and she still denied what I called the assault. I took my son home and he spent the year with me and my chronically sick wife. The principal ( a man that went to school with me ), begged me to bring my son back and that my son would be missing such a great start in education. I told him that this was not the 70′s and the very fact that it took 2 weeks for the Nursery teacher to tell the truth about the reason I took my son out of the school in the 1st place, was enough for me to never let her anywhere near my kids!! End of story thank God because I was so angry with this woman that I was tempted to slap her myself!!! Maybe this feeling of violence came from the fact that I was severely beaten, caned and given the leather strap at the Secondary Boarding School that I attended during the early and mid 80′s in Newry, Co. Down. Gone are the days of Corporal Punishment and it’s now time that the kid’s had a much bigger say in how they are ” educated “. Within the Acorn contains the potential for a Great Forest to Grow and I firmly believe this is the case with Human Beings; Schools in the West stunt this growth and want total control and whether it be by bullying or embarrassing the kid’s or forcing the parent’s to accept a school shrink telling them that their kid needs to take some unspeakable drug for it to be broken, the end seems to justify the means.Well it ain’t gonna happen to my kid’s and I will be sharing this fantastic view of the education system with many of my friends. Another fantastic video from Conscious Media Network…..Well done…..