Public Education: Start Again

Peter Gray’s “Freedom To Learn”

• Video Game Addiction: Does It Occur? If So, Why?
  The concept of "video game addiction" has been rejected by the American Psychiatric Association, by many video game researchers, and by many psychotherapists who work with video gamers. I reject it too. Here's why; and here's how you might help someone you know who spends lots of time at video games and seems unhappy.read more
• The Many Benefits, for Kids, of Playing Video Games
  Video games do not promote obesity, ill health, social isolation, or violence. They do promote friendships, cooperation, self-control, and brainpower.read more
• How Children Learn Bravery in an Age of Overprotection
  I doubt if there has ever been any human culture, anywhere, at any time, that underestimates children’s abilities more than we North Americans do today. Our underestimation becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy, because . . .read more