- The Brazilian Samba schools offer a model for how learning can occur effectively in self directed spaces. - The spaces have people from different ages and experiences all working together and learning from one another. --- Seymour wrote about the Brazilian samba schools, where people come together to create music and dance routines for the annual carnival festival. What intrigued Seymour most was the way that samba schools bring together people of all different ages and all different levels of experience: children and adults, novices and experts, all working together, learning with and from one another. - Mitchell Resnick in Foreword of [[Mindstorms]] Every American disco is a place for learning as well as for dancing. But the samba schools are very different. There is a greater social cohesion, a sense of belonging to a group, and a sense of common purpose - Seymour Papert in [[Mindstorms]]