Alliance For Self-directed Education How children acquire academic skills without formal instruction, paperback/peter gray

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Children who grow up in a literate and numerate environment do not need to be taught how to read or how to use numbers to calculate.

They pick these skills up in the course of their everyday living.

In this collection of essays, developmental psychologist Peter Gray presents the evidence that this is so.

He also presents evidence that teaching-especially when it is forced and comes too early-can interfere with children's learning to read and calculate.

In addition, in one ess.