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.

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.

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.

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.

We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning in a natural way - by exploring. Logo [the computer programming language ] allows them to find their way around the computer, as they would find their way around the house, uncontaminated by the bureaucracies of schools.

I think Disney is a very interesting company, and it does have an extremely powerful means for projecting a certain way of thinking.

Daddy always asks me and I never know what to say”.