I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve. — 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
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 don't like MTV, and I don't like the culture that goes with it. It's OK in very small doses, maybe. Nevertheless,… — 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
Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic… — 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
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
Even with the most stupid video games, kids learn more about learning than they ever did before, because they want to learn… — 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
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 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
Corporate America needs to get its act together to see that the education system is changed so it produces what it needs.… — 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
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
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
