Comments on: Day 3 - All Bridge, All Day

By: Rev C.E. Aldinger

Rev C.E. Aldinger — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:33:08 +0000

Heard the NPR story & looked you up - very, very cool school! I grew up like that (& didn’t have to pay for it….) and am still an inveterate tinkerer more than half a century later. Encouraging kids to be imaginative tool users is invaluable and I applaud you for doing it!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:10:10 +0000

I’m just blown away by how much FUN it looks like the kids and adults are having. This is EXACTLY what kids should be doing with their summers. I hope my boys will be fortunate enough to visit the Tinkering School, or at least get to share their father’s insane collection of power tools. Congratulations on an awesome bridge, and just generally.

By: Branton

Branton — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:09:04 +0000

This summer camp sounds incredible. I am so excited it exists, and I hope it is doing very well. Developing the creativity of our children and therefore our future, should be the most pressing matter in all of our schools. Understanding creates new ideas and new ideas generate further understanding. This cycle should be nutured. I am glad that at least during the summer young people can learn to not be consumed with meeting the so called national standards of education and instead they can learn to create and problem solve without the aid of a text and memorization techniques. Have you considered developing a curriculum for an actual school? I would send all of my children there, course I dont’ have any yet. Let me know when you do, and I will get to work on the kids.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:18:18 +0000

I, too, heard the NPR story and was thankful that such a thing as the Tinkering School exists, except for the fact that it means that very few kids get to tinker at home. Keep spreading the gospel of not being afraid to try stuff…I find myself afraid to hammer a nail in a wall to hang a picture. Very sad…and my Dad was an experimental physicist!