Gever Tulley
Gever Tulley
Gever Tulley is an American writer, speaker, computer scientist, and founder of the Brightworks School and Tinkering School. His more recent work centers around the concept of students learning through building projects. He has delivered a TED talk on his work, published the book 50 Dangerous Things, and has contributed articles for many online media outlets...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the kinds of experiences that develop their sense of self-reliance, their ability to assess and mitigate risk, and their sense of accomplishment.
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The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.
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Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.
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We put suffocation warnings on all the - on every piece of plastic film manufactured in the United States or for sale with an item in the United States. We put warnings on coffee cups to tell us that the contents may be hot. And we seem to think that any item sharper than a golf ball is too sharp for children under the age of 10.
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The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.
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Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don't live near a train track, it's hard to squash a penny that way, and if you live in an apartment in New York City, it may be difficult to get to drive a car.
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Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.
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Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.
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When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences that will help kids grow up to be the empowered, creative, brave problem-solvers that they can and must be.
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Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.