Seymour Papert
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"Seymour Aubrey Papert" is an Massachusetts Institute of Technology/MIT mathematician, computer science/computer scientist, and education/educator. He is one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo (programming language)/Logo programming language.

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None of that's there in an African village. How can we give it to them?

I think there is good reason to believe that if everything were open, fewer bad things could happen. So give everyone the tools to observe and communicate what is happening.

Our interest is really in Third World development. I believe that it's essential to solving the problems of poverty, violence, and environment, to have better education.

It will change . . . the way children everywhere think about themselves in relation to the world.