What Peter Gray has said about Let Grow
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 29, 2026
Peter Gray, American evolutionary psychologist and author of Free to Learn and Restoring Childhood, has been quoted on Let Grow once in 1 episode of Passion Struck with John R. Miles, most recently on September 29, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Gray points to Let Grow's Play Club, an hour of supervised but non-intervening mixed-age free play, as a promising development in schools.
“what we at the Let Grow organization call Play Club, which is an hour of free age mixed play before school or after school”
Passion Struck with John R. Miles: Your Kids Don’t Need More Achievement. They Need More Freedom | Dr. Peter Gray - EP 826 (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 1:10:29
Episodes
Your Kids Don’t Need More Achievement. They Need More Freedom | Dr. Peter Gray - EP 826Passion Struck with John R. Miles · Sep 29, 2026 · 1 h 17 min
Evolutionary psychologist Peter Gray tells John R. Miles why children need free play and independence, blaming school pressure rather than smartphones for the youth mental health crisis.
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