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 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.

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.

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

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

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

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.