The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching. — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge. — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
“Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire 's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated… — 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
The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking. — 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
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what… — 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
