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In this episode we talk to Peter Gray, professor of psychology at Boston College, about school, self-directed education and the many ways children learn and how adults help and impede this impulse to learn. We get into a short history of compulsory education, the alternatives to schooling that are currently available, and how our views of children’s capacities to learn and what they actually need to learn influence how we let them develop and the freedom we give them. What do we actually know about children who doesn’t follow the standard path through the school system, and how do they fare in a world that is as skill and knowledge based as our own? Much better than we would expect, and Peter Gray has some research and experience to back that claim up. Peter briefly gets into different concepts like homeschooling, unschooling, self-directed learning and self-directed education, and why he prefers the latter. Peter Gray has also written a lot about the value of age mixing in children and adolescents, and how f