It's not what you know about the computer that's important, but your ability to do things with it. By studying French in… — 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… — 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
Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they… — 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… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Working with the computer gives rise to many opportunities to transcend asocial behavior, because it produces exciting and visually interesting things to… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other… — 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
Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can't really learn about computers without being taught, so it's more difficult for them… — 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
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
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
Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed. — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having… — 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
