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

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.

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.

It's not what you know about the computer that's important, but your ability to do things with it. By studying French in an academic setting, you get to know a lot about it, but typically, you can't express yourself well or have an interesting conversation with it.

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.

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.

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.