Quotes by Seymour Papert

Seymour Papert

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

Favors

Learning

Thinking

Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can’t really learn about computers without being taught, so it’s more difficult for them to feel comfortable with a computer. Deep down, I think they’re afraid of learning about computers.

Adults

Taught

Thinking

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

Computer

Programming

Typing

Corporate America needs to get its act together to see that the education system is changed so it produces what it needs. The educational system that teaches kids to be passive recipients of knowledge worked when most workers were sitting in assembly lines.

America

Educational

Kids

Daddy always asks me and I never know what to say”.

Ask Me

Daddy

Knows

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.

Ideas

People

School

Educators who have said, “We don’t like that, so we’ll continue to teach as if it’s not happening,” are just aggravating the gap between what happens in schools and what happens in the real world. Because of their personalities, or for cultural reasons, some kids might better express themselves through moving images and sound.

Moving

Real

School

Even with the most stupid video games, kids learn more about learning than they ever did before, because they want to learn codes and moves before other kids figure them out. They’re motivated to seek out someone or search the Net for help. A student who makes a video game has to solve mathematical problems to make special effects happen on the screen.

Kids

Moving

Stupid

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 being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it’s not because it’s too hard. It’s because it’s–boring

Games

Kids

School

For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by growing up with a few very powerful theorems one comes to appreciate how certain ideas can be used as tools to think with over a lifetime. One learns to enjoy and to respect the power of powerful ideas. One learns that the most powerful idea of all is the idea of powerful ideas.

Children

Growing Up

Powerful

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Absurd

Abuse

Adults

America

Art

Ask Me

Believe

Benefits

Book

Boring

Children

Classroom

Computer

Computer Literacy

Convinced

Daddy

Discovery

Education

Educational

Essence

Favors

Games

Gears

Goal

Growing Up

House

Ideas

Important

Independent

Interesting Conversation

Jobs

Kids

Knowing Everything

Knows

Learners

Learning

Levels

Machines

Mean

Meaningful

Moving

Mtv

Opportunity

Parent

People

Powerful

Problem

Programming

Reading

Real

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Seymour Papert

Seymour Papert

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can’t really learn about computers without being taught, so it’s more difficult for them to feel comfortable with a computer. Deep down, I think they’re afraid of learning about computers.

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

Corporate America needs to get its act together to see that the education system is changed so it produces what it needs. The educational system that teaches kids to be passive recipients of knowledge worked when most workers were sitting in assembly lines.

Daddy always asks me and I never know what to say”.

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.

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 being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it’s not because it’s too hard. It’s because it’s–boring

Get Social with TBU

Topics by Seymour Papert

Popular Tools

The Future Blueprint

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

The Autobiography

The Behaviour Diary

The Dating Diary

The Relationship Therapist

Menu

Menu