“I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.” SchoolSubjectsComputer Author:Matt Frewer
“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.” ThinkingWayMeanDifferentFormRaceImpossibleSubjectsDesignCommunicationJudgmentComputerTrainingOrdinaryTasksImportanceCommunicateDifferent WaysCapabilityEngineeringEngineersInadequateComputer Systems Author:Maurice Wilkes
“One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.” PeopleThinkingNeedsShouldHas BeensProblemPastYoungTalkingWrittenSubjectsFitComputerShould HaveScientistExpertsComputer ScienceCurriculumIct Author:Michael Gove
“The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.” ThinkingFeelingsScienceSuccessfulSubjectsComputerMathematicsMathematician Author:Kenneth Appel
“Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand. This is exactly the opposite of what you want them to learn. They're approaching the computer as just another abstract school subject.” IfsWantWritingHandsKidsSchoolSubjectsComputerOppositesWhat You WantAbstractEssaysLabsProcessing Author:Seymour Papert
“Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.” BlackStepsSubjectsStudentsReadyComputerTestsPressureGeeseIntegersWhittling Book:Heart, You Bully, You Punk Source: Heart, You Bully, You Punk