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.

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.

My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics, for statistics, for all the "hard" subjects.... In short, I believe more than ever that programming should be a key part of the intellectual development of people growing up.

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

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.

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

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.