Top 22 Gever Tulley 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. 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
#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. Avoiding guilt is not the same as making rational decisions.
Gever Tulley
#6. Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
Gever Tulley
#7. The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.
Gever Tulley
#8. Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.
Gever Tulley
#9. 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
#10. The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
Gever Tulley
#11. You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me.
Joe Cocker
#12. Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.
Gever Tulley
#13. The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.
Gever Tulley
#14. The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.
Kenneth Clarke
#15. In our life sometimes we have to make painful choices. And it takes a bit of courage to make up our mind for it involves an element of renunciation, something hard to accept in a world steeped in pleasure and comfort.
Fr. Henry Bocala
#16. 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
#17. You're not even looking at the view, Xan."
"I'm looking at all I need to.
Amy Lane
#18. Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth.
Daniel Quinn
#19. Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.
Gever Tulley
#20. The more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected.
Gever Tulley
#21. 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
#22. 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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