My old friend, Ihor Charischak, shared this four minute clip in which Seymour Papert addresses the “suicidal” tendencies of teacher training and calls for more thought to being given to the “art of learning.”
“When they went to school, the first thing they [children] had to learn was to stop learning and to begin being taught.”
Two versions of the same video for new and old browsers (above and below)
Ihor Charischak (climeconnections.blogspot.com) digitized this recording of a long-lost Seymour Papert keynote delivered at the National School Boards Association Technology + Learning Conference in 1994.
It is amazing how Seymour’s words are still as valid as they were more than 15 years ago. Thanks for sharing