--- title: "Best Seymour Papert Quotes" description: "Seymour Aubrey Papert was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, who spent most of his career teaching and resea..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b176/author-seymour-papert-12175.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b176/author-seymour-papert-12175.jpg) # Seymour Papert (1928–2016) Mathematician United States **56** quotes in **428** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Seymour Papert was a mathematician from the United States, best known for *Mindstorms*. ## Quick Facts About Seymour Papert Born February 29, 1928 Died July 31, 2016 Nationality United States Profession Mathematician Notable works Mindstorms Known for Logo, One Laptop per Child, Lego Mindstorms, Perceptrons, Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas Spouse Suzanne Massie ## About Seymour Papert Seymour Aubrey Papert was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, who spent most of his career teaching and researching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and of the constructionist movement in education. He was co-inventor, with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon, of the Logo programming language. ## Awards & Honors Marconi Prize Guggenheim Fellowship ## Quotes by Seymour Papert · Page 2 > [For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-papert/for-what-is-important-when-we-give-children-a-theorem-to-use-is-not/) [Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-papert/) [Appreciate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/appreciate/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e86/seymour-papert-12175_appreciate_for-what-is-important-when-we-give-child_174426.png) > [Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-papert/often-kids-in-a-computer-lab-learn-about-word-processing-but-if-they/) [Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-papert/) [Abstract](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abstract/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cd/seymour-papert-12175_abstract_often-kids-in-a-computer-lab-learn-about_2670451.jpg) > [We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-papert/we-imagine-a-school-in-which-students-and-teachers-excitedly-and-2/) [Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-papert/) [Apathetic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apathetic/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdf/seymour-papert-12175_apathetic_we-imagine-a-school-in-which-students-an_761433.png) > [If children really want to learn something, and have the opportunity to learn it in use, they do so even if the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-papert/if-children-really-want-to-learn-something-and-have-the-opportunity/) [Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-papert/) [Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/140/seymour-papert-12175_children_if-children-really-want-to-learn-somethi_2457436.png) > [I think we should allow for schools within schools, where 100 out of 500 kids may be organized by the way they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-papert/i-think-we-should-allow-for-schools-within-schools-where-100-out-of/) [Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-papert/) [Adults](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adults/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f23/seymour-papert-12175_adults_i-think-we-should-allow-for-schools-with_2774261.png) > [I do think that we'd do better if we just offered all the bureaucrats in the Department of Education very attractive early…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-papert/i-do-think-that-we-d-do-better-if-we-just-offered-all-the-bureaucrats/) [Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-papert/) [Abolish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abolish/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55a/seymour-papert-12175_abolish_i-do-think-that-we-d-do-better-if-we-jus_769813.jpg) > [We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-papert/we-often-treat-children-as-if-they-re-not-very-competent-to-do/) [Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-papert/) [Bureaucracy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bureaucracy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a37/seymour-papert-12175_bureaucracy_we-often-treat-children-as-if-they-re-no_185813.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-papert/educators-who-have-said-we-don-t-like-that-so-we-ll-continue-to-teach/) [Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-papert/) [Aggravating](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aggravating/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a2/seymour-papert-12175_aggravating_educators-who-have-said-we-don-t-like-th_2438419.png) > [I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-papert/i-think-schools-generally-do-an-effective-and-terribly-damaging-job/) [Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-papert/) [Capacity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/capacity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a5/seymour-papert-12175_capacity_i-think-schools-generally-do-an-effectiv_2480441.png) > [This frenzy about cyberporn indicates some deeper fear of adults as they see kids become more independent and learn things they never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-papert/this-frenzy-about-cyberporn-indicates-some-deeper-fear-of-adults-as/) [Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-papert/) [Able](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/able/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07e/seymour-papert-12175_able_this-frenzy-about-cyberporn-indicates-so_382811.jpg) > [Working with the computer gives rise to many opportunities to transcend asocial behavior, because it produces exciting and visually interesting things to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-papert/working-with-the-computer-gives-rise-to-many-opportunities-to/) [Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-papert/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/seymour-papert-12175_art_working-with-the-computer-gives-rise-to_485922.jpg) > [Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-papert/until-very-recently-most-knowledge-was-inaccessible-to-people-who/) [Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-papert/) [Access](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/access/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c27/seymour-papert-12175_access_until-very-recently-most-knowledge-was-i_793507.jpg) > [Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can't really learn about computers without being taught, so it's more difficult for them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seymour-papert/adults-have-been-brainwashed-into-thinking-that-they-can-t-really/) [Seymour Papert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seymour-papert/) [Adults](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adults/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3de/seymour-papert-12175_adults_adults-have-been-brainwashed-into-thinki_1052284.png) > [It's not what you know about the computer that's important, but your ability to do things with it. 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