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Teacher Tom
Personal blog · teachertomsblog.blogspot.comother
Teacher Tom is a personal blog at teachertomsblog.blogspot.com. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Teacher Tom's posts on letting kids take physical risks and learn their own capabilities. One commenter values his approach to supervision versus meddling.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Reflections on teaching and learning from preschoolers
What Hacker News says?
I love Teacher Tom's mindset. He views risky activities as essential for kids to learn how to be safe. While supervision is important, meddling is unhelpful. They can do a lot when we step back and let them explore their own physical capabilities. I've adopted his phrase: "I won't help you, but I won't let you get hurt." http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-process-of-r... I love how he makes ridiculous s…
Comment linking /2009/07/law-of-natural-consequences.html
on “How Children in a Maya Village Do Chores”Submitted Those Mythological "Jobs Of Tomorrow" as a story · 91 points
HN discussionThis article says "2020", but I got about 2 sentences in and said... "I've read this before". In 2018... http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2018/12/those-mythologic... But wait, there is more! He also wrote it 3 years ago. Nearly word-for-word identical. http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2017/11/when-democracy-s... Self-plagarism is still plagarism.
Comment linking /2017/11/when-democracy-suffers.html
on “Those Mythological "Jobs Of Tomorrow"”Submitted The Universal Language as a story · 3 points
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