Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves. Gever Tulley View this quote
Like learning to tie your shoes or dress yourself, learning to be responsible for yourself is one of the things kids are supposed to do while they are still kids. Gever Tulley
Gever Tulley
The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment. Gever Tulley
The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope. Gever Tulley
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
The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome. Gever Tulley
Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing. Gever Tulley
Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns. Gever Tulley
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
American computer scientist
