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...
children thinking abuse
The first thing to note is that pornography and many abductions occur apart from the use of computers, and that most child abuse happens within the family. So I think the extra degree of danger that computers pose doesn't justify the frenzy.
powerful mean thinking
I think Disney is a very interesting company, and it does have an extremely powerful means for projecting a certain way of thinking.
kids independent thinking
This frenzy about cyberporn indicates some deeper fear of adults as they see kids become more independent and learn things they never learned. I think those fears also reflect a failure to communicate. Parents should be able to say to their kids: "There is stuff out there that we don't look at, and if you find yourself looking at it or someone approaching you about it, then let's talk about it."
learning thinking favors
A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.
school kids thinking
I think we should allow for schools within schools, where 100 out of 500 kids may be organized by the way they work and what they do, and what they do often is more progressive. I would like to see a lot of kids of different ages, maybe even some adults, work together on a project.
mean kids thinking
I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having a whole computer to yourself as long as you liked.I felt a surge of intellectual power through access to this computer, and I started thinking about what this could mean for kids and the way they learn. That's when we developed the computer programming language for kids, Logo.
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.
thinking taught adults
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.
children thinking trying
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.
thinking
You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.
african none
None of that's there in an African village. How can we give it to them?
change children everywhere relation themselves
It will change . . . the way children everywhere think about themselves in relation to the world.
bad believe fewer good observe reason tools
I think there is good reason to believe that if everything were open, fewer bad things could happen. So give everyone the tools to observe and communicate what is happening.
believe essential interest problems solving third
Our interest is really in Third World development. I believe that it's essential to solving the problems of poverty, violence, and environment, to have better education.