Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can't really learn about computers without being taught, so it's more difficult for them to feel comfortable with a computer. Deep down, I think they're afraid of learning about computers.

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.

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

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

Undoubtedly, there are kids with intellectual deficiencies or neurological problems. But a lot of kids shunted into special education classes are deficient only in a willingness to conform to the school pattern.They are just honest, brave kids who say, "I just won't take that, and I don't believe in what you're doing." If you give them an alternative to the usual classroom, they break free of a lot of inhibitions and bad associations, and they begin to learn.

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.

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