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.

It's not what you know about the computer that's important, but your ability to do things with it. By studying French in an academic setting, you get to know a lot about it, but typically, you can't express yourself well or have an interesting conversation with it.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

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.

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