Peter Bergson

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Peter Bergson began his career in 1967 at Synectics, Inc., a consulting firm that specialized in creative group problem solving. Having recently read John Holt’s How Children Fail, he soon realized that what he was doing was teaching adults how to think like toddlers, thereby reversing the effects of conventional schooling. He married Susan Shilcock in 1975, and together they founded a preschool/kindergarten program to promote the principles and practices of the creative process in an Open Education environment. They published a book about their work titled Open Connections: The OTHER Basics. Later, after reading an early issue of John Holt’s Growing Without Schooling, they converted their school into a learning center for unschoolers. In 2015, ten years after Susan’s death, Peter opened another center, this one in inner-city Philadelphia, called Natural Creativity. He is now writing and plotting new ways to boost the education revolution into a national movement. Peter’s son and three daughters all went from unschooling to college; his seven grand-ones are on the same path.