I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

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.

I don't like MTV, and I don't like the culture that goes with it. It's OK in very small doses, maybe. Nevertheless, it's a social reality and has influenced how kids perceive things around them, the pace of life and the way people do things.

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.

The first thing to note is that pornography and many abductions occur apart from the use of computers, and that most child abuse happens within the family. So I think the extra degree of danger that computers pose doesn't justify the frenzy.

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

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate