“I contrast this with a sex education class I witnessed in a school. Teacher produces a diagram showing the plumbing of human genitalia and gives a lesson full of physiological information. I could almost hear him ticking off in his mind the “content” that has to be “covered” in the lesson plan. Meechai didn’t teach any of this. Can we call what he did sex education? I say “yes” … he taught those villagers something far more important than facts, which they probably knew anyway or could find out. He taught them to open their minds to a subject they previously wouldn’t let in. He taught them they could play with a topic that previously made them clench their minds into a tight knot.”
Papert, Seymour. Computer as Condom