A lot of learning can
be a little thing.

What do children learn at school? They go varying distances in their studies, but at any rate they learn to read, to write and to add - i.e. a number of techniques, and a number of other things as well, including elements (which may be rudimentary or on the contrary thoroughgoing) of scientific' or 'literary culture', which are directly useful in the different jobs in production (one instruction for manual workers, another for technicians, a third for engineers, a final one for higher management, etc.). Thus they learn 'know-how'.

One of the reasons children learn rapidly is because they are empty vessels; they know they don’t know. Some people who claim to have twenty years of experience have one year of experience that they’ve repeated twenty times.

kids, working in small, unsupervised groups, and without any formal training, could learn to use computers very quickly and with a great degree of proficiency.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.

"Teaching Children Thinking," in which he argued that the best way for children to learn was not through "instruction," but rather through "construction" — that is, learning through doing, especially when that doing involved a computer.

[R]arely is the question asked: Are... is our children learning?

As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. — New York, Sept. 26, 2007

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.

the best way for children to learn was not through “instruction,” but rather through “construction” — that is, learning through doing,