afraid of the dilution of rigor by the encroachment of wishy washy humanistic thinking

[amusingsheep]

And other quotes from Seymour Papert!!

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Imagine that children were forced to spend an hour a day drawing dance steps on squared paper and had to pass tests in these "dance facts" before they were allowed to dance physically. Would we not expect the world to be full of "danceophobes"? Would we say that those who made it to the dance

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[strayfish]

Reading Clay Shirky's "Cognitive Surplus" right now. That last quote about sharing ideas is really reminiscent of the book (he did a TED talk too).

[amusingsheep]

There are so many freaking brilliant people in the world. They walk around disguised as normal joes.. and then they hit you with diamonds and sparkles and revolutions and beer and earth-shaking philosophy and two-sentence summations of life/universe/everything..

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