May 5, 2014
“Indeed, we might summarize all these points by saying that schoolchildren have been deprived of the opportunity of actually doing mathematics in... Read More
April 7, 2014
“In The Children’s Machine I told a learning story about how I helped a student in the “resource room”—which is where they... Read More
March 6, 2014
“I noticed that a lot of the discussion of computers was dominated by questions like, just to take one example, when they... Read More
June 27, 2012
“It is self-indulgent of us as teachers to say that we can spend 3 hours a week with a student and give... Read More
April 18, 2012
“I have noted elsewhere (Papert, 1996b), that School’s math can be characterized by the fact that its typical act is making marks... Read More
March 19, 2012
“Almost all parents think that it is a good thing for their kids to do something called “learning math” and are therefore... Read More
December 13, 2011
“In 1971 Channel 5, a local Boston TV station, produced a program on children in new learning situations and included a segment... Read More
December 9, 2011
“Actually the educational software industry does know best about something, but about something other than the best ways to learn mathematics. It... Read More
October 25, 2011
“Let’s go back to Dewey for a moment. Intellectual growth, he often told us, must be rooted in the child’s experience. But... Read More
October 5, 2011
“This praise for the concrete is not to be confused with a strategy of using it as a stepping-stone to the abstract.... Read More