I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passiv….

If children really want to learn something, and have the opportunity to learn it in use, they do so even if the teaching is poor. For example many le….

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need t….

Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as ….

Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damag….

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge..

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them..

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching..

You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something..

We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their ow….

I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve..

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery..

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate.

One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in doing so, both acquires a sense ….

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed..

Corporate America needs to get its act together to see that the education system is changed so it produces what it needs. The educational system that….

Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop….

For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by growing up with a few ….

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 setting, you get….

Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling,….

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people….