Teaching Children Thinking
Seymour A. Papert · Programmed Learning and Educational Technology · 1972
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.