"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."

Family, Children, Games, Play, Will

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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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"I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world."

People

"You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will."

Want

"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."

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"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."

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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."

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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."

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"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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