Seymour Papert Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.”
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“Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”
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“You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.”
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“The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.”
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“One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in doing so, both acquires a sense of mastery over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intense contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building.”
-- Seymour PapertSource : "Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas". Book by Seymour Papert, 1980.
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“You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.”
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“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.”
-- Seymour PapertSource : "Vision for Education: The Caperton-Papert Platform" by Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, www.papert.org. August 1999.
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“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”
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“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.”
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“What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate”
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“I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”
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“My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics, for statistics, for all the "hard" subjects.... In short, I believe more than ever that programming should be a key part of the intellectual development of people growing up.”
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“A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.”
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“The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take a view of learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge. Then we extend the idea of manipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product.”
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“BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.”
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“Daddy always asks me and I never know what to sayâ€.”
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