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Seymour Papert
(1 Mar 1928 - 31 Jul 2016)
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 quotes)
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.
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.
See also:
- 1 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Papert's birth.
- Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas, by Seymour A. Papert. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Seynour Papert.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
