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13 quotes by Gever Tulley

Gever Tulley is an American writer, speaker, computer scientist, and founder of the Brightworks School and Tinkering School. His most recent work centers around the concept of students learning through building projects. He has delivered a TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talk on his work, published the book 50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do), and has contributed articles for many online media outlets.
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Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

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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... →

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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... →

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

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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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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... →

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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 -... →

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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... →

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

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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... →

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