4. “Children will create … Whether order or disorder,
chaos or harmony, beauty or ugliness, accord or
violence, they will create. We all begin life with a will
to leave a mark no one else has left.”
David W. Orr
24. “In the LOGO work we have invented versions of such
machines in which powerful ideas from physics or
mathematics or linguistics are embedded in a way that
permits the player to learn them in a natural fashion,
analogous to how a child learns to speak.”
Seymour Papert, Mindstorms
25. Certain ideas can be used as tools to think with over a
lifetime.
One learns to enjoy and to respect the power of powerful
ideas. One learns that the most powerful idea of all is the
idea of powerful ideas.
Seymour Papert, Mindstorms