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

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.

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

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.

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.

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.

Our goal in education should be to foster the ability to use the computer in everything you do, even if you don't have a specific piece of software for the job.