Adam Savage: Permission to Make

Adam Savage: Permission to Make

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Here’s a great KQED interview with Adam Savage, called “Permission to Make.”

MythBusters host Adam Savage has a thing or two to say about the importance of tinkering — even if that means it gets messy.

“If you don’t get a chance to fail, if you don’t get a chance to try things and not get them right the first time, and you keep on doing it until you do get that specific kind of success, then you become so risk-averse that you in fact get an allergy to trying new things. And that is the worst thing we can do to kids.”

At Maker Faire last weekend, Savage spoke about how the “maker culture” is the engine that will fuel kids’ love for — and excelling in — math and science.

Here’s to that maker spirit!

6 thoughts on “Adam Savage: Permission to Make

  1. Chris says:

    Very nicely put together we need more of these videos placed on the web.

  2. Adam Savage: Permission to Make Julie Hudy says:

    Fantastic! I hope a lot of parents listen to this and “Give Permission to Make!” that’s when the magic for children begins.

  3. imt.lmzamora says:

    i’m aggre with AS we need more a maker culture than a buy/consume culture

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Mark Frauenfelder is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Make: magazine, and the founder of the popular Boing Boing blog.

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