Acquire Quote by Seymour Papert

We need to inspire kids to take notice of how and why a computer works. It's the marriage of art and science.

— Will I Am

I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having a whole…

— 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

What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to be logical?…

— Jonathan Cainer

The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.

— Boris Spassky

This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account a child's…

— Maria Montessori

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should…

— Dixie Carter

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

— Nicholas Negroponte

If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when children think…

— Robert Coover

When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask…

— Jaron Lanier

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

— James Dyson

The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.

— Alison Gopnik