Seymour Papert
Seymour Papert
Seymour Aubrey Papertis an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator. He is one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and co-inventor, with Wally Feurzeig, of the Logo programming language...
african none
None of that's there in an African village. How can we give it to them?
learners convinced
I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.
computer classroom absurd
Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.
retirement thinking ideas
I do think that we'd do better if we just offered all the bureaucrats in the Department of Education very attractive early retirements. But whether you want to abolish the department is another matter. Maybe there's room for recruiting a lot of visionary people who would do very good things: develop new techniques, new ideas, foster innovative models, disseminate those ideas.
computer-literacy people machines
Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.