Gever Tulley

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

Gever Tulley

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

Gever Tulley

If kids never encounter even tiny risks, they never develop that thing we call common sense.

Gever Tulley

Avoiding guilt is not the same as making rational decisions.

Gever Tulley

Children can only learn to take responsibility when given a chance to assess and mitigate risk for themselves.

Gever Tulley

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

Gever Tulley

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

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

Gever Tulley

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

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