Children Quote by Seymour Papert

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

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

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 to simulate

— 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 is that…

— 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 in a…

— Seymour Papert

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

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

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 don't help…

— 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 have a…

— Seymour Papert