Seymour Papert People Quotations

Until 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.

Similarly, 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.

Now 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.

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.