Children Quote by Ketil Moland Olsen

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

— Esperanza Spalding

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a…

— Nicholas Negroponte

“I believe that this corporate machinery of scripted programs, comprehension worksheets (reproducibles, handouts, printables, whatever you want to call them), computer-based incentive packages, and…

— Donalyn Miller

“Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn’t take it away from you.”

— John Carmack

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally…

— Edsger Dijkstra

“Does a good farmer neglect a crop he has planted? Does a good teacher overlook even the most humble student? Does a good father…

— The Tao of Programming

And out of each (schoolhouse) is vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy - an endless procession of adolescents who have been taught…

— Henry Louis Mencken

“In a society in which the educational system is used as an instrument for the establishment of a homogenized culture, in which the cream…

— Edsger W. Dijkstra

“Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her…

— Jay Parini

Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great…

— Susan Wojcicki

“School is not a brand holding a monopoly on learning, and we need to stop feeding it as such. It’s time to open our…

— Ellen Rowland

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming…

— Sugata Mitra