Gever Quotes

#1. The Tinkering School. More of a lab than a school, this summer program, created by computer scientist Gever Tulley, lets children from seven to seventeen play around with interesting stuff and build cool things.

Daniel H. Pink

#2. Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.

Gever Tulley

#3. I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids to learn how to build the things that they think of.

Gever Tulley

#4. Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.

Gever Tulley

#5. Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. Avoiding guilt is not the same as making rational decisions.

Gever Tulley

#7. Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

Gever Tulley

#8. The end is the best part of any story

Michael Grant

#9. The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.

Gever Tulley

#10. I hadn't noticed before how his mouth lifted up at one corner, as if he found life too humorous to stop smiling completely. Such a smile should be preserved forever in a drawing.

Sharon Biggs Waller

#11. Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.

Gever Tulley

#12. The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Michael Korda

#13. Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do ... those are the tests that help us understand the limits of our body. That's a positive learning experience that we deny children on a regular basis.

Gever Tulley

#14. The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

Gever Tulley

#15. 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.

Gever Tulley

#16. Some people say well we need a change. Hillary Clinton is been around a long, she sure has, and she's sure been worth every single year she's put into making people's lives better.

William J. Clinton

#17. The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.

Gever Tulley

#18. I have an incredible team of collaborators that work with me on all my films. I adore them and respect them tremendously. I can't wait to begin production on my next film so we can be reunited.

Dori Berinstein

#19. 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.

Gever Tulley

#20. In trying to be concise I become obscure.

Horace

#21. The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.

Ralph Marston

#22. Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.

Gever Tulley

#23. The more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected.

Gever Tulley

#24. Having resentment against someone is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy.

Nelson Mandela

#25. 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.

Gever Tulley

#26. 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.

Gever Tulley