Most computers today are sold like cars, where as many things as possible are done for you. You don’t have to understand how it works and, in fact, you don’t have to understand how to think because the most popular stuff is prepackaged solutions for this and that.

It’s absolutely important to challenge [students’] internals — challenge their internal musculature, their internal ability to make images, their internal ability to think about things and to make representations of things.

Alan Kay (via saud23)