By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the limitations of traditional education in presenting only one perspective.
Alan Kay reflects on his experiences in the education system, emphasizing that he encountered diverse viewpoints through reading before even entering school. This exposure led him to recognize that formal education often restricts learning to a singular perspective, which conflicts with the richness of knowledge gained through varied sources. His assertion illustrates the importance of embracing multiple viewpoints in the pursuit of true understanding and knowledge.
In practice
In a discussion about the importance of diverse opinions in learning.
The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
The greatest single programming language ever designed
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.
Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
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