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As Children’s Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity
Published on Psychology Today (http://www.psychologytoday.com) As Children’s Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity By Peter Gray Created Sep 17 2012 – 11:15am If anything makes Americans stand tall internationally it is creativity. “American ingenuity” is admired everywhere. We are not the richest country (at … Continue reading
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Creators not consumers
“Creators not consumers” was the mantra when I first worked with Play.Train in the early 1990′s. What drove us was the wish to encourage young people to recognise and value their own abilities to create, make, do, sing, think and … Continue reading