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.

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.

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.

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

The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take a view of learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge. Then we extend the idea of manipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product.

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

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