I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.
The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching. - Seymour Papert
The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.
- 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
Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. - Seymour Papert
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.
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
The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of ps…
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
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…
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
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.
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
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…
I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge. - Seymour Papert
I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.
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
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 …
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