“Many children who grow up in our cities are surrounded by the artifacts of science but have good reason to see them as belonging to "the others"; in many cases they are perceived as belonging to the social enemy.”

— Seymour Papert , book Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas

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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980)

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MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator 1928–2016

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