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5.0

It's contagious seeing Minsky think and write about topics in education with such optimism.

His six essays cover topics ranging from learning by doing, to building mental models and cognitive maps, to school structure. But one of the clear themes present throughout this collection is his joy in empowering people - especially children - to learn and build their own models of the world, thinking, and thinking about thinking.
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