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Seymour Papert
(1 Mar 1928 - )
American computer scientist who invented the Logo computer programming language as an educational computer programming language for children. He co-founded the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT.
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Science Quotes by Seymour Papert (2)
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn math and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities. (1981)
— Seymour Papert
Quoted in K.P. Yaday and Malti Sundram, Encyclopaedia Of Child And Primary Education Development, Vol. 2, 99.
See also: | Child (39) | Criticism (16) | Dishonesty (3) | Education (118) | Mathematics (221) | School (17)
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
— Seymour Papert
Quoted in Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2 (2001), 240.
