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[[Seymour Papert] told us in the 1960s that education should be about powerful ideas, in ''Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas''. This is a short list of ideas, divided into the feeble and the powerful. There are many more.
==Feeble Ideas==
* Teaching
* Facts
* Dates
* Right answers
* Testing
* Curricula
==Powerful Ideas==
* Ideas
* Children
* Learning
* Tools
* Truth, including how we decide what is true (Epistemology)
* Reality, including how we decide hat is real (Ontology)
* Ethics, specifically what we should do even if we don't want to, and what to do next
* Fun
* Possibility and necessity
* Fruitful questions
* Discovery
* Scientific method--Conjecture, hypothesis, theory, prediction, experiment, observation, error analysis, insight, falsification.
* Connections
* Collaboration
* Gears and linkages
* Math: Patterns, structures, conjectures, theorems, theories, interconnections, equivalences
* Logic
* Programming paradigms
* Maps
* Symbols
* Human rights
* Society: politics, government, services, oppression, war
* Design
* Unanswerable questions
==Feeble Ideas==
* Teaching
* Facts
* Dates
* Right answers
* Testing
* Curricula
==Powerful Ideas==
* Ideas
* Children
* Learning
* Tools
* Truth, including how we decide what is true (Epistemology)
* Reality, including how we decide hat is real (Ontology)
* Ethics, specifically what we should do even if we don't want to, and what to do next
* Fun
* Possibility and necessity
* Fruitful questions
* Discovery
* Scientific method--Conjecture, hypothesis, theory, prediction, experiment, observation, error analysis, insight, falsification.
* Connections
* Collaboration
* Gears and linkages
* Math: Patterns, structures, conjectures, theorems, theories, interconnections, equivalences
* Logic
* Programming paradigms
* Maps
* Symbols
* Human rights
* Society: politics, government, services, oppression, war
* Design
* Unanswerable questions