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What are the possibilities for children’s intellectual growth when every child has a computer?
In the essays included here, Marvin Minsky shares his wisdom about children, learning, school and computation. Five of the essays were written for OLPC ( One Laptop Per Child Foundation). The sixth essay was written as a preface to LogoWorks, a book of challenging Logo projects.

Marvin Minsky points out that

// Computer Science is not only about computers themselves; more // // generally, it provides us with a whole new world of ways to understand // // complex processes—including the ones that go on in our own mind. For // // until those new techniques arrived (such as programming languages for // // describing processes, and data structures for representing knowledge), // // we had no expressions that people could use to articulate—and then // // communicate—good new ideas about such things. //

Minsky is known world wide as a co-founder of the field of Artificial Intelligence. His books, **The Society of Mind** and **The Emotion Machine**, have provided new insights into how the mind works and how machines can be given commonsense reasoning.

OLPC 1: What makes Mathematics hard to learn? OLPC 2: Effects Of Grade-Based Segregation OLPC 3: Role Models, Mentors, and Imprimers and Thinking OLPC 4: Questioning “General” Education OLPC 5: Education and Psychology LogoWorks: Preface

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