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Computer Criticism vs. Technocentric Thinking
By Seymour PapertA version of this piece was published as “M.I.T. Media Lab Epistemology and Learning Memo No. 1″ (November 1990). Another version appeared in Educational Researcher (vol. 16, no. I) January/February 1987.
critic (from Greek kritikos able to discern or judge)
1: one who expresses a reasoned opinion on any matter involving a judgment of its truth value or righteousness, an appreciation of its beauty or techniques, or an interpretation…Read more at www.papert.org
2: one given to harsh or captious judgment.
-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary…the critic may on occasion be called upon to condemn the second rate and expose the fraudulent: though that duty is secondary to the duty of discriminating praise of what is praiseworthy.
-T.S. Eliot
