Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life by Peter Gray | Hardcover

About this book Children come into this world burning to learn, but the enduringlesson of school is that learning is work, to be avoided howeverpossible. In Free to Learn , developmental psychologist Peter Gray showsthat we can reverse the harmful effects of modern schooling byliberating our children to pursue their own interests throughself-directed play. Gray, who has devoted his research career tounderstanding the biological foundations of education, argues thatto promote learning, we must engage the core aspects of humannature?curiosity, playfulness, and sociability?instead ofinhibiting them. A brave, counterintuitive proposal for freeing ourchildren from the shackles of the curiosity-killing institution wecall school, Free to Learn shows that it's time to stop asking what'swrong with our children and start asking what's wrong with thesystem.