# Developmental Scaffolding Developmental scaffolding is the graduated support through which a person acquires capability together with the judgment, responsibility, and self-regulation needed to govern it. In the Thought Leader School analysis, access alone was insufficient. A scalable empowerment system also needed progressive responsibility, reciprocal contribution, mentorship, consequence, and enough temporal friction for internal models to catch up with newly available power. Related: [[wiki/Capability Replication|Capability Replication]], [[wiki/Compressed Exposure to Power|Compressed Exposure to Power]], [[wiki/Thought Leader School|Thought Leader School]], [[wiki/Access to Tools|Access to Tools]].