The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring..

My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for gramm….

The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of ps….

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge..

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….

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

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

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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

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

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,….

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….

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 ….

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

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

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….

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….