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.
Seymour PapertThe goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.
Seymour PapertSimilarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.
Seymour PapertI think Disney is a very interesting company, and it does have an extremely powerful means for projecting a certain way of thinking.
Seymour PapertNow 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.
Seymour PapertUntil 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.
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