Alliance For Self-directed Education The harm of coercive schooling, paperback/peter gray

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Children, like all human beings, crave freedom, but they are not free in school.

Schools operate by methods of coercion (a request in school is really an order), enforced with reward, punishment, and threats.

Coercion interferes with children's natural, joy-filled and interest-filled ways of learning and turns learning into work.

In this collection of essays, developmental psychologist Peter Gray describes also how schooling promotes bullying, cheating, and showing off; c.