What appeared most often at our door were maladies of the divided spirit—people who had somehow lost their stories, lost their memories, people separated from themselves, people you couldn’t distinguish from wild beasts.
“In many schools today, the phrase "computer-aided instruction" means making the computer teach the child. One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer and, in doing so, both acquires a sense of mastery over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intimate contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building.”
― Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
― Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
“This is a lesson everyone who studies language eventually learns. You cannot stop language change. You may not like it ; you may regret the arrival of new forms and the passing of old ones but there is not the slightest thing you can do about it. Language change is as natural as breathing. It is one of the linguistic facts of life.”
― The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left
― The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left
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