Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.

If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?

Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.

You can see the future best through peripheral vision.

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.