I think he would protest the extent to which schooling — assisted by computers or not — continues to be largely dominated by a mindset presupposing young people will not learn unless they are taught, and how few freedoms are offered students to self-direct their own learning.

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

Competition has trumped value-creation.

our competition, our desire to be different, is built on knowledge, on the ability to interpret and process information, and not on monopolising it.

are you a data set that Facebook counts on to offer to its advertisers—with the opt-outs subsidized by the fools who don't change their privacy settings?

The world, emptied of meaning, presents an unbearable situation in which meaning must be imposed

Even questioning takes a back seat to Google's anticipation of your query.

Last fall, Mr. Swartz began an appointment as a research fellow at Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics,

The university then tried to obstruct Mr. Swartz's laptop specifically, by barring the Media Access Control address, or MAC address, that the network had assigned to his computer.