Seymour Papert

1928–2016 · MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator

Topics: learning, programming

• Should the computer program the kid or should the kid program the computer?

  — Seymour Papert

• Many children who grow up in our cities are surrounded by the artifacts of science but have good reason to see them as belonging to "the others"; in many cases they are perceived as belonging to the social enemy.

  — Seymour Papert