"If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration."

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"If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration."

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"Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country."

Creativity

"So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled."

Technology

"In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today."

Work

"Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now."

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"When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in."

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"I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children."

Success

"Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school."

Experience

"Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them."

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"And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility."

Democracy

"Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much."

Change