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The play deficit: how children today are suffering

32 mins | Jun 9, 2018
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We assume that our children’ education takes place in the classroom, with time for leisure and recreation only serving as relaxation. But what if we learned the most important things in the playground? Peter Gray, writing in Aeon magazine, urges us to end our society’s insistence on depriving children of quality play-time.

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