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

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.

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.

Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damaging to the kids and their relationship with you when they find out the truth.

I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.

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

Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other channels of gaining knowledge. If someone is blind, we now have very good machines that will read to him. If someone can't recognize letters, he also will have access to knowledge through sound and images.