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Evolving the future of education: Problems in enabling broad social reforms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2014

Peter Gray
Peter Gray*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. [email protected]://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/psych/people/affiliated/gray.html
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Abstract

The apparent success of the Sudbury Valley School, coupled with its lack of impact on the larger culture, is used here to illustrate general constraints on managed change at the large-population level. Government regulations preventing innovation, the difficulty of bucking social norms, and the inadequacy of current indices of success operate against beneficial educational change in the larger culture.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , August 2014 , pp. 424 - 425
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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