# Tinkering Helps Children Develop a Scientific Style by Sherry Turkle > “Young scientists are encouraged by a personal experience with an object they can understand and with which they can tinker. Playing with objects in their own way leads children to build a personal scientific style.” > **— Sherry Turkle**, *2007 Edge Annual Question, response passage* ## Sources and Context - **Direct publication and locator:** [Psychologist, MIT; Author, Evocative Objects: Things We Think With — Sherry Turkle](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11059) — 2007 Annual Question response, contiguous sentence(s) within the representative extract. - **Exact original excerpt:** “Young scientists are encouraged by a personal experience with an object they can understand and with which they can tinker. Playing with objects in their own way leads children to build a personal scientific style. There has been no simple migration to a new digital world. Children grow up in many worlds—they are seduced by the virtual, but always brought back to the physical, to the analog, and of course, to nature.” - **Context and editing:** The poster takes Turkle’s two contiguous sentences on children’s physical encounters with objects. Her response also rejects a simple migration from physical tinkering to a wholly digital world. No editorial words were inserted. - **Local Edge archive:** [[research/Edge 2007 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2007 Full Quotation Curation]], response EDGE2007-057. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Greatest Transformation in Human History|The Greatest Transformation in Human History]] - **Article:** [[articles/An Order of Operation|An Order of Operation]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Science Ecosystem|Science Ecosystem]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Science Ecosystem|Science Ecosystem]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Young scientists are encouraged by a personal experience with an object they can understand and with which they can tinker. Playing with objects in their own way leads children to build a personal scientific style.” — Sherry Turkle, 2007 Edge Annual Question, response passage https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-sherry-turkle-tinkering-helps-children-develop-scientific-style ```