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"The invention of the automobile and the airplane did not come from a detailed study of how their predecessors, such as horse-drawn carriages, worked or did not work. Yet, this is the model for contemporary educational research. The standard paradigms for education research take the existing classroom or extracurricular culture as the primary object of study. There are many studies concerning the poor notions of math or science that students acquire from today's schooling. There is even a very prevalent "humanistic" argument that "good" pedagogy should take these poor ways of thinking as its starting point. It is easy to sympathize with the humane intent. Nevertheless I think that the strategy implies a commitment to preserving the traditional system. It is analogous to improving the axle of the horse-drawn cart. But the real question, one might say, is whether we can invent the "educational automobile". Since this question has not been addressed by educational psychology, we must conclude that the scientific basis for believe about aptitudes is really very shaky. But these beliefs are institutionalized in schools, in testing systems, and in college admissions criteria and consequently, their social basis is as firm as their scientific basis is weak."

-Seymour Papert, inventor of LOGO programming language