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
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
This frenzy about cyberporn indicates some deeper fear of adults as they see kids become more independent and learn things they never… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
I do think that we'd do better if we just offered all the bureaucrats in the Department of Education very attractive early… — 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
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
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
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
If a kid really is retarded and can only come up to a certain level, he will still have more success if… — 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 should think about what we mean by literacy. If you say, "He's a very literate person," what you really mean is… — 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
