Seymour Papert

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than to provide ready-made knowledge.

The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its capacity to simulate.

Learning is a natural process, like breathing. You don't have to teach children to breathe, you just have to make sure they have air.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

What is important is not what you think about the computer, but what you think with the computer.

Children learn to speak without being taught grammar. They learn to program without being taught programming.

The child, not the curriculum, is the center of the educational process.

The computer is a tool for thinking, not just for doing.

We need to move from a culture of instruction to a culture of construction.

The computer is not a teaching machine. It is a learning machine.

Learning by doing is not enough. We need to learn by making.

The computer is a medium for expressing ideas, not just for processing information.

The most powerful idea in education is that children can learn to program a computer.

The computer is a window into the mind.

We don't need to teach children about computers. We need to teach them with computers.

The computer is a bicycle for the mind.

The greatest learning happens when the learner is in control.

The computer is a tool for building, not just for consuming.

Learning is not something that happens to you. It's something you do.

The computer is a medium for exploration and discovery.