The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring. — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand.… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
I think we should allow for schools within schools, where 100 out of 500 kids may be organized by the way they… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Educators who have said, "We don't like that, so we'll continue to teach as if it's not happening," are just aggravating the… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, there are kids with intellectual deficiencies or neurological problems. But a lot of kids shunted into special education classes are deficient… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their… — Seymour Papert Copy Share
It's not what you know about the computer that's important, but your ability to do things with it. By studying French in an academic… — Seymour Papert Copy Share
I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve. — Seymour Papert Copy Share
What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate — Seymour Papert Copy Share
The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring. — Seymour Papert Copy Share
For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that… — Seymour Papert Copy Share
We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning in a… — Seymour Papert Copy Share
I think Disney is a very interesting company, and it does have an extremely powerful means for projecting a certain way of thinking. — Seymour Papert Copy Share
One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in doing so,… — Seymour Papert Copy Share
The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching. — Seymour Papert Copy Share
Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help… — Seymour Papert Copy Share
Our goal in education should be to foster the ability to use the computer in everything you do, even if you don't have a… — Seymour Papert Copy Share
This frenzy about cyberporn indicates some deeper fear of adults as they see kids become more independent and learn things they never learned. I… — Seymour Papert Copy Share
Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to… — Seymour Papert Copy Share
Working with the computer gives rise to many opportunities to transcend asocial behavior, because it produces exciting and visually interesting things to share, whether… — Seymour Papert Copy Share
![“We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning in a natural way - by exploring. Logo [the computer programming language ] allows them to find their way around the computer, as they would find their way around the house…” quote by Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a37/seymour-papert-12175_bureaucracy_we-often-treat-children-as-if-they-re-no_185813.png)
