I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve. — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most… — 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
One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
The first thing to note is that pornography and many abductions occur apart from the use of computers, and that most child… — 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
My ex-student, Idit Harel, who wrote a book, "Children Designs," has a documented story of a kid who was very shy, isolated… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
You can sit down with your child and prompt him to show you something - perhaps how to play a game [on… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
If children really want to learn something, and have the opportunity to learn it in use, they do so even if the… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
“In a classical joke a child stays behind after school to ask a personal question. "Teacher, what did I learn today? "… — 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
I tell adults about the experiences of more than a hundred teachers I've interviewed. They tell me that allowing the child 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 Image
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 Image
I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve. — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
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 Image
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching. — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
