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?
Nicholas NegroponteGiving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.
Nicholas NegroponteEverybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.
Nicholas NegroponteKids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
Nicholas Negroponte