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

I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having a whole computer to yourself as long as you liked.I felt a surge of intellectual power through access to this computer, and I started thinking about what this could mean for kids and the way they learn. That's when we developed the computer programming language for kids, Logo.

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 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.

Daddy always asks me and I never know what to say”.

For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by growing up with a few very powerful theorems one comes to appreciate how certain ideas can be used as tools to think with over a lifetime. One learns to enjoy and to respect the power of powerful ideas. One learns that the most powerful idea of all is the idea of powerful ideas.

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.