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

- Seymour Papert

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

- Seymour Papert

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…

- Seymour Papert

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

- Seymour Papert

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

- Seymour Papert

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

- Seymour Papert

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.

- Seymour Papert

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…

- Seymour Papert

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 …

- Seymour Papert