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 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.

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

If children really want to learn something, and have the opportunity to learn it in use, they do so even if the teaching is poor. For example many learn difficult video games with no professional teaching at all!

Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

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.