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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.

The idea of [http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/08/powerful-ideas-discourse.html non-universals] was started by Kay and furthered by Kerr. The idea being that all cultures spontaneously develop some ideas, for example art, but few cultures develop the more complex ideas, for example perspective drawing. The weakness in this analysis is that an idea might be very difficult to spontaneously generate but relatively easy to maintain in a culture. It does not necessarily give a guide as to how much teaching effort is required. It is however a useful way to look at powerful ideas.

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