So, I went on a podcast and talked about my dissertation and the Capability Approach. Thanks for having me, About Learning !

The traditional education system is built for every possible life path, which means it's optimized for no particular life path. For almost every life path, it's *not* the best preparation.

Apparently I write about podcasts, too

Toddlers can choose what toys to play with. teenagers have to ask to use the toilet. Nursery provides more autonomy than school! #reconf22 with Naomi Fisher

Can #Education learn anything from philosophers? Some thoughts on the PESGB conference. stanpinsent.wordpress.com/2022/09/18/my-…

"What is “fair game” when it comes to levelling the educational playing field?"

I hosted a thing!

New ideas are overrated. stanpinsent.wordpress.com/2022/10/10/is-…

Tomorrow I'm recording with the great Peter Gray, author of Free to Learn! Anyone have any questions for him? goodreads.com/book/show/1584…

Last week I talked to Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd about how and why I think our education system needs to change to put psychological well-being first, Listen to it here.

Free resource! Check out our new book featuring a foreword by Peter Gray & conclusion by Alison James with over 60 contributors’ playful interventions. download your free copy today! #playinhighereducation #academia #highereducation #criticalpedagogy press.etc.cmu.edu/books/professo…

a week since the open evening at The New School and still feeling so hopeful that another method of education is available where children are not groomed to be products of a system 🔥

Throwback: Democratic Schools with Fran McCarthy! Fran McCarthy anchor.fm/aboutlearning/…

Thousands of people, and still they come. #DartmoorProtest

NEW EPISODE after 6-month hiatus! The great Peter Gray, author of Free to Learn, on his hopes for a creeping education revolution - and what might stop it. anchor.fm/aboutlearning/…

This is a big threat to home-ed families and learning communities, who risk being babies thrown out with the bathwater. Need to show how brainwash factories can be legislated against without making state-schooling mandatory!

What if the pain of coercive schooling was completely uneccessary? How Children Acquire "Academic" Skills Without Formal Instruction by Peter Gray shop.aer.io/AllianceforSel…

Parents went along with foot-binding because they thought it was necessary to secure their daughters' futures. Now we know the pain & cruelty was unjustified. But we still think of childhood as a time to sacrifice for the future.

The biggest threat to the upcoming education revolution is.... government legislation! Germany has banned home schooling. Education reformers need to make sure this never happens in UK & US. anchor.fm/aboutlearning/…

"Unregistered" schools are not inherently bad. We need a vision for how religious & other indoctrination can be kept in check without giving the state a monopoly on education.