Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring

Early years and education
Papert attended the University of the Witwatersrand receiving a B. Working with LCSI Papert designed a number of award-winning programs including LogoWriter and Lego/Logo (marketed as Lego Mindstorms). "


Personal life
Papert's third wife was Sherry Turkle and together they wrote the influential paper "Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete.

He is one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language.