Work

Teaching Children Thinking

Year: 1972

Type: article

Abstract: Summery This paper is dedicated to the hope that someone with power to act will one day see that contemporary research on education is like the following experiment by a nineteenth‐century engineer who worked to demonstrate that engines were better than horses. This he did by hitching a 1/8 HP motor in parallel with his team of four strong stallions. After a year of statistical research he announced a significant difference. However, it was generally thought that there was a Hawthorne effect on the horses ... the purring of the motor made them pull harder.

Source: Programmed Learning and Educational Technology

DOI: 10.1080/1355800720090503

Author: Seymour Papert

Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Education and Critical Thinking Development

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation