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.
teaching goal way
The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.
teaching discovery benefits
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.
teacher school vision
We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their vision...not one that succeeds in making apathetic students satisfying minimal standards.
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.
teacher children experts
I tell adults about the experiences of more than a hundred teachers I've interviewed. They tell me that allowing the child to help them learn helped them become better teachers. That's because they no longer had to pretend they were the experts - not only about computers but about other things.