I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities. — 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
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
I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve. — Seymour Papert Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching. — Seymour Papert Copy Share
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
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
This frenzy about cyberporn indicates some deeper fear of adults as they see kids become more independent and learn things they never learned. I… — Seymour Papert Copy Share
Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to… — Seymour Papert Copy Share
Working with the computer gives rise to many opportunities to transcend asocial behavior, because it produces exciting and visually interesting things to share, whether… — Seymour Papert Copy Share
