Five dangerous things every school should do | Gever Tulley | [email protected]

shows that the stride length exhibited by people in a city tells you something about the wealth and well-being in that city. So she painted her feet, she walked on a piece of paper and she measured the distance. It's not perfect science, but she never forgot about that research. Spend a day without seeing. "Yes, of course, Clementine. You can do that." What

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would help them do that? We tell children that the camera works like an eye. We disassembled a camera. Then we disarmed one eye. Now they know what the inside of an eye looks like. Everything that children want to learn or what we want children to learn can be taught in this way: each educational objective.

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shapes how children view the world. We want them to see the world as a wonderful, enchanting, and creative place worth protecting. That starts when they're six years old, and we don't stop working on it until they go out into the world and make changes. That's why I say: let's be brave. Let's create the kind of schools we want to see our kids in. And if the government won't let us do it, let's cheat. (laughs) Thank you very much. (Applause)