Seymour Papert

We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built…

— Seymour Papert

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

I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.

— Seymour Papert

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power…

— Seymour Papert

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

— Seymour Papert

For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most…

— Seymour Papert

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

I think Disney is a very interesting company, and it does have an extremely powerful means for projecting a certain way of…

— Seymour Papert

One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in…

— Seymour Papert

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.

— Seymour Papert

Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they…

— Seymour Papert

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

This frenzy about cyberporn indicates some deeper fear of adults as they see kids become more independent and learn things they never…

— Seymour Papert

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try…

— Seymour Papert

Working with the computer gives rise to many opportunities to transcend asocial behavior, because it produces exciting and visually interesting things to…

— Seymour Papert

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

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

— Seymour Papert

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

We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built…

— Seymour Papert

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

“Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire 's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated…

— Seymour Papert

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

The first thing to note is that pornography and many abductions occur apart from the use of computers, and that most child…

— Seymour Papert

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

— Seymour Papert

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