Interview with Gever Tulley (Part 5): Do Try This At Home After Practicing Lots
Gever Tulley (http://gevertulley.com/) is one of my favourite people leading important changes for our children's education. Gever wrote a book called "50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)", he started the Tinkering School, he is the creator of Tinkering Labs - educational kits that you receive in the mail, and he is the Founder of Brightworks - an amazing school in San Francisco.
The kids in my Upstanders Academy and I are so honoured that we were able to interview Gever. This is the fifth clip from our 40 minute interview. We learned so many awesome things in this clip - like how the Tinkering School takes all of their projects apart when they are done and saves and reuses all the material. They will use a piece of wood, cutting it over and over again, until it is too small to be used anymore. We all need to adopt that mindset with the things we own and work on and move on from. We also talk about the importance of learning how to burn things with a magnifying glass. And we talk about how Gever does not like the phrase "Don't Try This At Home"!
I love everything that Gever does. Imagine what all our amazing children would be able to achieve if each of them got to experience the type of learning opportunities that Gever provides? That is the world that I want to help build. I hope that you feel as inspired as I do after listening to Gever.
Watch all six, five-minute clips from this interview at the links below:
Part One - • Interview with Gever Tulley (Part 1): Mayb...
Part Two - • Interview with Gever Tulley (Part 2): Buil...
Part Three - • Interview with Gever Tulley (Part 3): Send...
Part Four - • Interview with Gever Tulley (Part 4): More...
Part Five - • Interview with Gever Tulley (Part 5): Do T...
Part Six - • Interview with Gever Tulley (Part 6): Powe...
Filmed in June 2020.