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

There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company develop software for rebellious kids who don't want to go to school.

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.

Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...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.

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

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

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