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• For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most…
• The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.
• A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.
• My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for…
• Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game…
• You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what…
• The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of…
• You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.
• What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power…
• BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.
• Daddy always asks me and I never know what to say”.
• One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in…

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