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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.