Schools must be restructured to allow for more recess and play

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In a new interview with Reason’s Nick Gillespie, released Tuesday, Peter Gray, a professor of psychology at Boston College explains how desperately children need to engage in free play to thrive and develop survival skills — and that unfortunately in our modern, school-centric, parent-hovering world, that’s one thing they can’t do.

Children have been playing unsupervised since the beginning of time

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