Make Learning Visible · Make Knowledge Snap Together

Viewpoint: the teacher's role is to create the conditions for children to invent and discover, not to hand them ready-made knowledge — children truly understand what they build with their own hands.

“Learn to Code, Code to Learn — building programs like building blocks lets children learn to think and express themselves through creating.”

“The principal goal of education is to create people who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.”

“Teaching, learning and doing are one thing, not three. We teach by doing and learn by doing — building with your hands is the most natural way to learn.”

“We acquire language in one way: when we understand messages — understanding language while building and using sentences is closer to real acquisition than memorising grammar rules.”

“In language training, the most important thing is training a feel for language — a keen sense of the words we read and hear.”

“Language is learned in its use — learning and using go hand in hand (‘learn-with-use’). Building real English sentences with blocks is exactly learning through use.”

Viewpoint: the world of the future is an intelligent one — to stay relevant you need fundamental tools such as computers and English.

“Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.”

Viewpoint: the best part is no part; the best process is no process — delete what isn't needed first, then simplify and optimise.

“Programming education is about algorithmic and data-structure thinking, not about any one language. C++ sits in a sweet spot of performance, control and ecosystem — it expresses programming ability most directly.”