Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

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.

If a kid really is retarded and can only come up to a certain level, he will still have more success if what he learns is connected with something important to him.

Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.